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Black Sunday Study Guide

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by Thomas Harris
About 5 pages (1,528 words)
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Black Sunday represents a thriller in which a hero or heroes battles a villain or villains to save the lives of innocents. In its simplest manifestation, it is the story of psychopathic killers stalking innocent victims, the stuff of many of the films of Alfred Hitchcock, detective novels, and true crime tales.

Its discussion of the technical paraphernalia of international terrorism, meanwhile — plastic explosives, weaponry, and various exotic means of transport — allies this book with the genre of techno-thrillers by writers such as Tom Clancy. Although Harris's next two novels also depend.....

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Black Sunday from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.



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