Word: devil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Speak of the devil. First Evangelist Billy Graham, in England for a 21-day revival on the Oxbridge campuses, slipped in his bathtub, bruising ribs and brewing a painful case of pleurisy. Then, as an overflow audience of 20,000 jammed Oxford's scruffy town hall to hear a Southern-drawled sermon on sin, a number of students decided to be sophomoric. Some heckled Graham as a fascist, others set off the hall's fire alarm and cut closed-circuit TV cables that were carrying his message to 5,000 listeners in five other auditoriums. The preacher...
...Devil's Alternative, Forsyth...
...storms in 1968-69 had so narrowed the opening in the sand bar as to reduce drastically the strength of the tide flowing into the bay and inner harbor. Said he: "It's not anywhere like what it used to be. The tide used to run like the devil through here...
CHAPTERS OF The Devil's Alternative end with a short sentence in a haunting passive voice. "Lunches were ill-digested," goes one, and your's may not sit quietly in the stomach either after finishing Frederick Forsyth's latest and alarmingly timely new novel...