They found him in a small town in Brazil, near the border with Paraguay. He had a new name, Danilo Silva, & his appearance had been changed by plastic surgery. The search had taken four years. They'd chased him around the world, always just missing him. It had cost their clients three & a half million dollars. But so far none of them had complained. The man they were about to kidnap had not always been called Silva. Before he had had another life, a life which ended in a car crash in February 1992. His gravestone lay in a cemetry in Biloxi, Mississippi. His name before his death was Patrick S. Lanigan. He had been a partner at an up & coming law firm. He had a pretty wife, a new daughter, & a bright future. Six weeks after his death, $90 million had disappeared from the law firm. It was then that his partners knew he was still alive, & the long pursuit had begun... ...

They found him in a small town in Brazil, near the border with Paraguay. He had a new name, Danilo Silva, & his appearance had been changed by plastic surgery. The search had taken four years. They'd chased him around the world, always just missing him. It had cost their clients $3.5 million. But so far none of them had complained. The man they were about to kidnap had not always been called Silva. Before he had had another life, a life which ended in a car crash in February 1992. His gravestone lay in a cemetry in Biloxi, Mississippi. His name before his death was Patrick S. Lanigan. He had been a partner at an up-&-coming law firm. He had a pretty wife, a new daughter, & a bright future. Six weeks after his death, $90 million had disappeared from the law firm. It was then that his partners knew he was still alive, & the long pursuit had begun... ...

Henri had a passion for Napoleon & Napoleon had a passion for chicken. From Boulogne to Moscow Henri butchered for his Emperor & never killed a single man. Meanwhile, in Venice, the city of chance & disguises, Villanelle was born with the webbed feet of her boatman father
- but in the casinos she gambled her heart & lost. As the soldier-chef's love for Napoleon turns to hate he finds the Venetian beauty, & together they flee to the canals of darkness.
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Here are the great minds of Western civilization & their pivotal ideas, from Plato to Hegel, from Augustine to Nietzsche, from Copernicus to Freud. Richard Tarnas performs the near-miracle of describing profound philosophical concepts simply but without simplifying them. Ten years in the making & already hailed as a classic, The Passion of the Western Mind is truly a complete liberal education in a single volume. ...

Here are the great minds of Western civilization & their pivotal ideas, from Plato to Hegel, from Augustine to Nietzsche, from Copernicus to Freud. Richard Tarnas performs the near-miracle of describing profound philosophical concepts simply but without simplifying them. Ten years in the making & already hailed as a classic, The Passion of the Western Mind is truly a complete liberal education in a single volume. ...