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The Case Of Sir Denton Marshall

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“That’s when my first direct thought occurred: I want to kill them all” (Patterson 18). Private Games is set in London, England at the Private Investigations London office. The 2012 Olympic games in London are about to happen and a Games organizing committee chair was ruthlessly murdered. The man that claims to have killed organizing committee chair, Sir Denton Marshall, sends a letter to reporter Karen Pope who is working the games as a sports reporter. The man calls himself Cronus promising to bring the games back to their Ancient Glory. The main investigator on this case for Private Investigations is Peter Knight. Peter has close ties to this case due to the fact that Sir Denton Marshall was his mother’s fiancé. Pope and Knight will have …show more content…

As a young boy, Cronus was removed from his house for stabbing his comatose mother with a knife in her thigh. He was moved into a foster home with a man by the name of “Minister Bob.” One night Cronus crawled from the home of Minister Bob and ran to an abandoned building. Here he finds two teenagers high on something that are yelling at him to “get off their turf.” He is beat into a pulp and smashed above his left ear, followed by a Technicolor explosion that cracked through his brain and then everything went black. This is where Cronus realizes his calling, “How else would you explain the fact that long before the storms began in my head, hatred was my oldest memory and wanting to kill was my very fist desire?” (Patterson 17). 10 years later Cronus is working for NATO in Bosnia when he is blown off of a truck by a bomb and is the only one left alive. He walks aimlessly until he finds three girls who have been taken from their families and have been tortured by Bosnian security. Marta, Petra, and Teagan become so inclement to all people that Cronus figures they are his furies. The Furies are Cronus’s three half sisters that were made from the blood of Cronus’s father. Cronus transforms himself into someone of hate. Cronus turns himself into a man so evil you cannot imagine. Cronus forms himself into the most ruthless human being on the planet. Who will Cronus and the Furies kill

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