LICENSED TO KILL
Book ID/图书代码： 12580013B61690
English Summary/英文概要： LICENSED TO KILL is a mystery-thriller, straddling two eras: contemporary urbane London, and the far different world of the post-Dickens Victorian-era East End, where the most famous serial killer in history stalked the streets in 1888. LICENSED TO KILL takes a sometimes poetic, sometimes nightmarish journey back in time between what happened when Jack the Ripper terrorized that city and society, and what is happening there in present time when a copycat killer of almost surreal power emerges again from the crypts of history.
Underwood’s protagonist, San Francisco-based journalist Jake Fleming, is a throwback to Graham Greene: a man trying to do the right thing against growing odds, and risk the terrifying consequences of delving into long-hidden truths about man, nature, and the unknown. His path is not eased when he discovers a possible link between the most famous killer of all time and the most successful mystery author of all time: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Sorting Freemasons from Rosicrucians, fable from fact, and random from ritual, further complicated by the new urgency of knowing when and where the next murder will take place, Fleming must now try to find the missing link between past and present, between the new Jack and the original, and what motivates the newcomer to take such risks to emulate his predecessor.
What Jake Fleming finds in the archives of the British Library may shake the literary world yet again. Was it a coincidence that two days after the stage version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde opened at London’s Lyceum Theater a young woman was murdered a short distance away, beginning the Ripper reign of terror? And was there any relationship between these events and fictional detective superstar Sherlock Holmes’ emergence in the London tabloids at the same moment in time?
What has made Jack the Ripper the most notorious and first known serial killer in history was that he accomplished those gruesome and ritualistic murders despite a massive police presence and gangs of vigilantes searching for him even as he committed those terrible crimes. He was never caught, and that only served to enhance and ultimately canonize his fame. And, as Jake Fleming quickly learns, this new Ripper reincarnation is especially heinous because of his choice of victims: not unattractive middle-aged, alcoholic prostitutes such as the first Jack chose to target, but young, educated Middle Class women whose principle commonality is their dedication to trying to make the world a better place.
In seeking to stop this apparently unstoppable new End-Times Ripper from triggering an intended Apocalypse, Jake must follow the mythical footsteps of Sherlock Holmes himself in order to prevent the new killer from striking yet again: this time targeting Jake’s best friend, lover and partner, Diana Parker.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《杀人执照》是一部悬疑惊悚片，跨越了两个时代：当代都市伦敦和后狄更斯维多利亚时代的伦敦东区，那里是1888年历史上最有名的连环杀手作案的街道。《杀手执照》有时是诗意的，有时像在噩梦般旅程中回到过去，那里开膛手杰克恐吓城市和社会，而现在发生的是一个模仿杀手以几乎超现实的力量再次从历史的地穴中出来。
安德伍德设定的主角是旧金山的记者杰克•弗朗明，一个格林•格雷厄姆的复古者：他试图做正确的事情来抵制日益增长的差距，以及冒着风险深入研究关于人、自然和未知事物的隐藏已久的真相。当他发现最著名的杀手和最成功的神秘作家：亚瑟•柯南•道尔爵士之间可能有某种联系时，他的道路并不轻松。
从玫瑰十字会到共济会，从虚构到事实，从惯例到随机，弗朗明一点一点整理，而知道何时何地发生另一宗谋杀案的紧迫性使情况变得更为复杂。他必须努力找到过去和现在，新的杰克和老杰克之间缺失的联系，以及新杰克冒这么大的风险模仿他的前任的动机是什么。
杰克弗莱明在大英图书馆发现的档案可能会再一次震惊世界文坛。罗伯特•路易斯•史蒂文森的舞台剧“Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde”在伦敦演讲厅剧院开演，两天后，在距离剧院不远的地方，一个年轻的女子被谋杀。这是一个巧合吗？开膛手又开始腥风血雨了吗？这些事件和虚构的超级侦探福尔摩斯在伦敦同一时间轰动的出现，他们之间有什么联系吗？
尽管大量的警力和帮派在找他，他还是完成了那些可怕的仪式谋杀，因此开膛手杰克成为了历史上最臭名昭著的连环杀手。他从未被抓住，这仅仅使得他的名声越来越高。很快，杰克•弗朗明了解到这个转世的新杰克更令人发指，因为他所选择的受害者不是那些没有魅力的中年人和陪酒妓女，而是年轻、受过教育的中产阶级妇女，她们的共同特点是都努力奉献让世界变得更美好。
为了让这个显然势不可挡的新开膛手停止灾难的射击，弗朗明必须追寻福尔摩斯神话般的脚步，来阻止新的谋杀：他最好的朋友，爱人和合作伙伴，戴安娜•帕克。（LNL）
Awards/获奖情况：《杀人执照》的意大利翻译权已经售出。Italian translation rights for LICENSED TO KILL have already been sold.
About the Author/作者介绍： 约翰•安德伍德（EC艾尔斯）是已经出版的六部悬疑小说的作者，《托尼•洛厄尔神秘系列》（圣马丁出版社），《莎翁编年史》，《在新中国的三年教学回忆》。他是纪录片导演，编剧，小说家，教育家和记者，曾经在纽约，好莱坞，欧洲，南美，新西兰和中国工作过。John Underwood (E. C. Ayres) is author of six published mysteries (The Tony Lowell Mystery Series by E.C. Ayres/ St. Martin’s Press) The Shakespeare Chronicles, and a memoir about three years teaching Inside the New China. He has worked as a documentary filmmaker, screenwriter, novelist, educator and journalist, working in New York, Hollywood, Europe, South America, New Zealand and China.
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