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From the author of the acclaimed The Hollow Man and Deep Shelter, comes the third installment featuring the shrewd, cynical, and brilliant London detective, Nick Belsey, whose investigation into a child's disappearance pulls him into the hedonistic orbit of a young, hot celebrity actress/musician and the dark world lurking underneath its glamorous exterior.

Twenty-seven, rich and beautiful, Amber Knight is living everyone's dream. Her music career is established, her acting career is taking off, and she has a lifestyle fit for the top of the A-List....

In this gritty, white-knuckle crime thriller, Detective Nick Belsey--introduced in the acclaimed The Hollow Man as a shrewd, street-smart cynic who is one of London's sharpest, but most unprincipled, investigators--is plunged into a perplexing mystery of secrets, danger, and suspense beneath the city's streets.

Trouble once again finds Nick Belsey when he takes a date to an abandoned bomb shelter buried beneath the heart of London. One minute the young woman is there, and the next, she's gone, mysteriously vanishing into the dark labyrinth of secret tunnels. A seasoned cop...

Lacan s Return to Antiquity is the first book devoted to the role of classical antiquity in Lacan s work. Oliver Harris poses a question familiar from studies of Freud: what are Ancient Greece and Rome doing in a twentieth-century theory of psychology? In Lacan s case, the issue has an additional edge, for he employs antiquity to demonstrate what is radically "new "about psychoanalysis. It is a tool with which to convey the revolutionary power of Freud s ideas by digging down to the philosophical questions beneath them. It is through these questions that Lacan allies psychoanalysis with...

Unraveling the mysteries of "Naked Lunch, "exploring the allure of fascination

William Burroughs is both an object of widespread cultural fascination and one of America s great writers. In this study, Oliver Harris elucidates the complex play of secrecy and revelation that defines the allure of fascination. Unraveling the mystifications of Burroughs the writer, Harris discovers what it means to be fascinated by a figure of major cultural influence and unearths a secret history behind the received story of one of America s great original writers.

In "William Burroughs and the Secret...

Lacan s Return to Antiquity is the first book devoted to the role of classical antiquity in Lacan s work. Oliver Harris poses a question familiar from studies of Freud: what are Ancient Greece and Rome doing in a twentieth-century theory of psychology? In Lacan s case, the issue has an additional edge, for he employs antiquity to demonstrate what is radically "new "about psychoanalysis. It is a tool with which to convey the revolutionary power of Freud s ideas by digging down to the philosophical questions beneath them. It is through these questions that Lacan allies psychoanalysis with...