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Name: Brides of Blood

Author: Joseph Koenig
Year: 1993
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Rarely has an American novel packed such a powerful one-two punch of classic crime narrative and authentic foreign intrigue as does Joseph Koenig's new thriller, Brides of Blood, which features a mesmerizing glimpse inside the seething cauldron of corruption that is post-revolutionary Iran. The Detective: Darius Bakhtiar, formerly a promising young prosecutor under the Shah, trained in an American law school, now the grizzled chief of Homicide for the National Police. A man with a sense of right and wrong but with a smudge on his record. Was it murder or justifiable homicide? The Murder: On a hellish summer night, a young woman is discovered on a bench in a residential area of Teheran, shot point-blank in the head. The coroner informs Bakhtiar of his opinion: She did not die from the bullet wound. The chief of Homicide pursues his investigation with a drug connection in mind. The Komiteh: A brutal paramilitary organization of religious vigilantes charged with enforcing strict Islamic code, it holds the entire population in a viselike grip. Its number two man in the Iranian capital, a young administrator named Bijan - equal parts ambition, ferocity, and zeal - focuses, curiously, on the investigation. Evin Prison: The point of no return for enemies of the regime. A real-life Midnight Express where prisoners routinely beg for the deliverance of death. From the Shiite guerrilla training camps of southern Lebanon to inside the walls of the world's most infamous torture chamber; from the teeming bazaar of Teheran to the supernal calm of the sweltering holy city of Qom....Brides of Blood, rich in atmosphere and bristling with suspense, hurtles to a stunning conclusion that confirms Joseph Koenig's reputation as a new master of the international crime thriller.