Author: Thomas Perry

Cites

• Daniel Defoe (1)
  • IN: Sleeping Dogs (1992) Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Psychological Fiction, Adventure fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: At my coming back, I shot at a great bird which I saw sitting upon a tree on the side of a great wood. I believe it was the first gun that had been fired there since the creation of the world. I had no sooner fired, but from all the parts of the wood there arose an innumerable number of fowls of many sorts, making a confused screaming, and crying, every one according to his usual note; but not one of them of any kind that I knew. As for the creature I killed, I took it to be a kind of a hawk, its color and beak resembling it, but had no talons or claws more than common; its flesh was carrion, and fit for nothing.
    FROM: Robinson Crusoe, (1719), Novel, US
• Cadwallader Colden (1)
  • IN: Blood Money (1999) Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Adventure fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Their Great Men, both Sachems and Captains, are generally poorer than the common People, for they affect to give away and distribute all the Presents or Plunder they get in their Treaties or War, so as to leave nothing to themselves. If they should once be suspected of Selfishness, they would grow mean in the opinion of their Country-men, and would consequently loose [sic] their Authority.
    FROM: The History of the Five Indian Nations Depending on the Province of New-York in America, 1727., (1727), Book, Ireland/US
• Lewis Henry Morgan (1)
  • IN: Shadow Woman (1995) Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Adventure fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Any person, whether old or young, male or female, might become possessed of an evil spirit, and be transformed into a witch. A person thus possessed could assume, at pleasure, the form of any animal, bird or reptile, and having executed his nefarious purpose, could resume his original form, or, if necessary to escape pursuit, could transmute himself into an inanimate object.
    FROM: League of the Iroquois, 1851, (1851), Book, US
• Anthony F. C. Wallace (1)
  • IN: Dance for the Dead (1996) Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Adventure fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The common aim of all war parties was to bring back persons to replace the mourned-for dead. This could be done in three ways: by bringing back the scalp of a dead enemy (this scalp might even be put through an adoption ceremony); by bringing back a live prisoner (to be adopted, tortured, and killed); or by bringing back a live prisoner to be allowed to live and even to replace in a social role the one whose death had called for this "revenge."
    FROM: The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca, 1969, (1969), Book, US/Canada