The first chapter sets the pace. The narrator-hero, Ben Bolton, alias David Ditchling, an ex-marine officer, is in Cairo completing some private business when by chance he is caught up in a terrorist attack on a bus-load of Armenian tourists. Standing bes ide an elderly Armenian woman, he instinctively throws himself down on top of her to protect her from the hail of bullets. He saves her life but is himself wounded, almost losing the use of his hand. When the woman's son, William Mikoyan, arrives in Cairo from the USA he brings both a reward and a request that Bolton should help him track down the terrorists. Bolton is initially reluctant to become involved but when his mother, Eleni, is brutally tortured by a psychotic member of the gang, the search beco mes a personal crusade. Pursuing and pursued across the Middle East and finding allies both outside and within the official security forces, Ben Bolton is in danger of losing far more than the use of a hand.
The action moves confidently from Cairo to Cyprus, Athens, Turkey and Israel. Two of the characters in a large cast are particularly memorable: Ben's fiancée Eloise and his mother Eleni. Born a Jew but saved from the Holocaust by a Greek family, she is br ought up a Christian, but has no difficulty in reconciling the two worlds. She is a remarkable creation, a true original drawn with humour and deep human sympathy. Eleni is not the only character in The Forwarding Agent whom one hopes to meet again."
Set in Memphis and north Mississippi, "The Rabbit Factory" follows the colliding lives of, among others, Arthur, an older, socially ill-at-ease man of considerable wealth married to the much younger Helen, whose desperate need for satisfaction sweeps her into the arms of other men; Eric, who has run away from home thinking his father doesn't want him and becomes Arthur's unlikely surrogate son; Domino, an ex-con now involved in the drug trade, who runs afoul of a twisted cop; and Anjalee, a big-hearted prostitute with her own set of troubles, who crashes into the lives of the others like a one-woman hurricane.
Teeming with pitch-perfect creations that include quirky gangsters, colorful locals, seemingly straitlaced professors, and fast-and-loose police officers, Brown tells a spellbinding and often hilarious story about the botched choices and missed chances that separate people -- and the tenuous threads of love and coincidence that connect them. With all the subtlety and surprise of life itself, the story turns on a dime from comical to violent to moving. Masterful, profound, and full of spirit, "The Rabbit Factory" is literary entertainment of the highest order.
A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing; one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover—these are the two couples whose story is told in this masterful novel. In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events, a world in which everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. Hence, we feel "the unbearable lightness of being" not only as the consequence of our pristine actions but also in the public sphere, and the two inevitably intertwine.
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