'The Mask of Fu Manchu' manages to hold our attention with a cliché but nevertheless historically effective big-Hollywood plot line. It has everything we've grown accustomed to in a blockbuster: an evil villain, a damsel in distress, a bumbling Brit or two. All we need is a guy in a...
deleted by Emma after being stabbed with the Key of Heaven. He wails that he never would have called Jin-woo, or sent him the quest, if he’d known so many people would die. He sobs that he didn’t even know about Jin-woo and Hee-...
and as some physicists today still maintain). I fear I am saying too much, and perhaps giving away spoilers, even to go this far. The theme is worked out in much more careful detail over the course of the novel, and especially in its final sections. I will just ...