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London, November, 1956. DI Ted Stratton is tasked with investigating the murder of Jeremy Lloyd, a strange young man with a taste for esoteric religion. Stratton's enquiries lead him to Suffolk, where the mysterious Mr Roth has founded a Foundation for Spiritual Understanding. Apparently Lloyd had believed himself marked out for great things. But at the Foundation, Stratton meets twelve-year-old Michael who is proclaimed as the next incarnation in a long line of spiritual leaders that show more stretches back to Christ and Buddha. He is rumoured amongst Roth's disciples to have been immaculately conceived, but the woman who is said to be his mother, and whose photograph was cherished by Lloyd, has disappeared. When a woman's body is found in woods nearby, Stratton initially assumes he has found 'the mother', but the reality turns out to be far stranger and far more terrifying... show lessTags
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Laura Wilson is the real voice of Jesse Adams. She has written and edited children's history books on subjects from plantation life in the antebellum South to medicine through the ages. For How I Survived the Oregon Trail, she has created a journal based on authentic pioneer diaries and letters.
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- A Willing Victim
- Original publication date
- 2012
- People/Characters
- Ted Stratton
- Important places
- Suffolk, England, UK
- Epigraph
- 'Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.'
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland. - Dedication
- To my father,
William Wilson
(1924-2010) - First words
- 'The Interplanetary Parliament.' Mr Heddon nodded emphatically.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Stratton pressed button A. 'It's Edward,' he said. 'I just thought you'd like to know that the world isn't going to end after all.'
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 10
- ASINs
- 2
