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Appartient à la sérieArsenic and Rio (Book 1)
When Marshall met Hal, it was a match made in hell. Hal is a first class con man and manipulator. Marshall is the perfect pawn, a young guy who has been abused all his life, with no self confidence. Hal is pure evil, and he recognizes gold when he sees it. Marshall is handsome, gay and desperate to be loved and accepted. Hal is a former resident of the detention center where Marshall is living. He knows the unscrupulous director, who is deeply in debt with the mob. When the director is asked to do the mob a favor, a job that will set Hal up for life, Hal recruits Marshall to help him carry out his diabolic scheme.When Marshall meets the handsome young owner of a coffee plantation, his job is to seduce him, and secure the plantation for the mob. Marshall doesn't truly understand that Angelo will have to die. Marshall is completely unprepared for Angelo, and completely unprepared for love, something in his sad life, he has never known.Hal is in the background making sure Marshall doesn't stray from the plan...a plan that will succeed only if Marshall kills the man he loves. Passion and despair reign as Arsenic and Rio sweeps the reader away to a coffee plantation high in the mountains of Brazil, and to the warm sands of Rio. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Marshall is an abused child. At twelve years old he ran away from the foster house where they put him when his mother was interned for trying to kill him, and obviously the only chance he had was to be a whore. Actually he even found a "decent" pimp, a man that, when not selling him for money, took care of him, giving him an house, food and dresses. But before his 18 years, the man died and Marshall was sent in a correctional home, a place where he was supposed to complete his education and build a life. Instead he remained involved with Hal, who again whored him, but in a far worst way than before: he used Marshall to blackmailed closeted gay men. Finally Hal plans the big deal: Angelo is a rather young and wealthy man who lives in an isolated coffee plantation in Brazil. Hal wants for Marshall to seduce Angelo, to convince the man to draw a will in his favour and then to kill him. At first Marshall doesn't realize exactly what Hal is asking, and then Angelo is one more man to foul. But Angelo is kind and gentle and he really loves Marshall, so much that even Marshall starts to love him back. But the boy is too much involved with Hal and he seems to not see a way out of the situation.
All the book, yes all the 400 pages, is about Marshall; about his life before, during and after Angelo, about his journey to become a man. Ab absurdo, the tale of how Marshall will lose his innocence: yes since, even if he was a teen whore, and he made a lot of nasty things, till the main event of this story, Marshall was still a young boy, even naivee sometime. With the right care and proper psychological help, he would had a chance; and instead he met Hal, and he started his fall to Hell. And Angelo has the very right name, since he is the Angel who tries to help him, he is the man who holds out an hand to Marshall, who tries to show him another world, a world where he can be safe and happy. But Marshall needs to fall deeply and badly to understand that.
Even if Angelo is the victim, my tears are all for Marshall. Not that I don't like Angelo, he did very good thing and till the end he proves to be a very honest and full-hearted man, but well he is like an icon, the icon of love for Marshall, and instead Marshall is flesh and blood.
Really, I think D.J. Manly is becoming better every books he writes. This one is a real treasure.