Innocent Blood

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Adopted as a child into a privileged family, Philippa Palfrey fantasizes that she is the daughter of an aristocrat and a parlor maid. The terrifying truth about her parents and a long-ago murder is only the first in a series of shocking betrayals. Philippa quickly learns that those who delve into the secrets of the past must be on guard when long-buried horrors begin to stir.

"As a crime novel," wrote the London Times, Innocent Blood is "the peak of the art." "Flawlessly crafted...profoundly, masterfully moving," Cosmopolitan concurred.

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A psychological and location study.......2007-08-26

I enjoy P.D. James very much. I'm a fan who respects her talents and absolutely loves her command and use of the English language. I don't want to be the kind of fan that only wants the people they admire to do one thing, "play your greatest hit again". But this one was a toughie for me. I didn't like the main character at all. While I don't have to have a sterotypical heroine to enjoy a book, it makes it much more enjoyable for me if I find at least a couple of things about them I like. There is nothing here to admire or relate to in Phillipa's character. Graham Greene kept running through my head as I read this book. It is much more a psychological study than a mystery. There is tension in the book though, which mounts very slowly, and by that, becomes intense. But there is a tremendous amount of the book devoted to descriptions of places. While these descriptions are vibrant, the number of them detracted from the book for me. There are character studies that, when viewed in the totality of the book, seem pointless. We learn about the women that Phillipa and her mother work with. Then they are gone from the book. Nothing in their appearance relates to the overall story. But, again, the descriptions of them are masterful. I would recommend this book, but only to those who like reading for the enjoyment of language usage. For a more traditional, but equally compelling "English murder mystery" book, I would recommend many other of James works, but not this one.

Incredibly well-crafted, amazing characters.......2007-01-12

I could not put this down. P.D. James is so brave, she's willing to create such deep characters, with such problems. She sets the characters up in a hugely dramatic plot and then sets them free. You really do believe that these are real people, living out these twisted circumstances. Add to that her command of the english language. P.D. James is a huge literary talent. It is a shame that since she is writing "genre" fiction, that she doesn't receive the literary accolades that she deserves.

My recommendation: buy this book, set aside a weekend, and dive in.

A satisfying, complex novel.......2006-10-18

I was very impressed with this book--the first PD James I have read. I picked it up as a vacation book and quickly found myself engrossed in the characters. They are compelling and real, from the daughter aching to learn the truth about her birth parents to the bitter, haunted father of a murdered child. James does an excellent job of drawing us into the quiet desperation of these people's lives. I would put this book into a literary category rather than a mystery. The secondary characters are extremely well nuanced too, from the blind woman who works in the hotel to the man who works in the fruit and veg shop. The reader is left with a mix of emotions at what in a lesser writer's hands would be a simple murder and revenge story. Highly recommended.

An unusual book for this woman..........2006-01-06

For some reason, I had missed this PD James book when I read most of them about 15 years ago. It is not what you would expect, if you are used to Adam Dalgleish and police procedurals. In fact, if you had given me this book without a cover and made me guess the author, I would have said RUTH RENDELL, hands down. I'm surprised no one else has said the same. Consider: the London location, with plenty of details about neighborhoods, buses, and underground trains; multiple characters with strange obsessions that work themselves out slowly and inexorably; a culminating act of violence; and unfortunately (as has been the case in several of Rendell's latest) a slightly unsatisfactory ending. BEWARE OF SPOILER: Strangely enough, in Rendell's latest, she uses James's plot device of a man trying to kill someone who's already dead.

I am a big fan of both writers. For me, this was the best of both worlds. James is a master of spinning plot, location, and character together, and she does that in spades in INNOCENT BLOOD. I would have almost guessed that P.D. and Ruth got together like Bruno and Guy in STRANGERS ON A TRAIN and agreed to swap murders.

no title.......2005-11-10

I don't know about this book - it made me read to the end to see what happened - and the ending should have been at the end of Book III, but all the way through I could see and feel the writer writing. That's not good. But the characters were extremely well-drawn, very complete and whole. Much like Le Carre in her meticulous attention to detail - too much so - got in the way sometimes. Plot forced and too coincidental at times. And didn't really like Phillipa, the heroine, if you will. Many good individual lines that I highlighted in the book - especially "in whom we live and move, and have our being" and "an artist should suffer in childhood as much trauma as could be borne without breaking". Would have helped to be more familiar with London. Whose innocent blood? Julie's or Mrs. Ducton's? Several cliches and trite phrases used. Also murder manuscript not plausible. Too overwritten.

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A Flawed Tale of a Flawed Man
More powerful than evil
inspiring story, but fragmented writing
A poor look at ethical wealth
Moving, challenging, insightful

Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed
Philip P. Hallie
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
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During the most terrible years of World War II, when inhumanity and political insanity held most of the world in their grip and the Nazi domination of Europe seemed irrevocable and unchallenged, a miraculous event took place in a small Protestant town in southern France called Le Chambon. There, quietly, peacefully, and in full view of the Vichy government and a nearby division of the Nazi SS, Le Chambon's villagers and their clergy organized to save thousands of Jewish children and adults from certain death.

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A Flawed Tale of a Flawed Man.......2006-06-05

It is said that, during World War Two, the village of Le Chambon in southern France was the safest place in Europe. It was this small village where Andre Trocme, a Protestant pastor, charged his church and his entire village with the task of protecting refugees, and primarily the Jewish refugees who were fleeing Nazi oppression. The story of this man and, to a lesser extent this village, is told in Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed, written by Philip Hallie, a philosopher and ethicist whose study of the horrors of the Second World War had driven him to near despair.

Across all these studies, the pattern of the strong crushing the weak kept repeating itself and repeating itself, so that when I was not bitterly angry, I was bored at the repetition of the patterns of persecution. When I was not desiring to be cruel with the cruel, I was like a monster--like, perhaps, many others around me--who could look upon torture and death without a shudder, and who therefore looked upon life without a belief in its preciousness. My study of evil incarnate had become a prison whose bars were my bitterness towards the violent, and whose walls were my horrified indifference to slow murder. Between the bars and the walls I revolved like a madman. Reading about the damned I was damned myself, as damned as the murderers, and as damned as their victims. Somehow over the years I had dug myself into Hell, and I had forgotten redemption, had forgotten the possibility of escape.

But in his own search for redemption, Hallie found a story that finally broke through the walls of bitterness and anger. He found the story of Le Chambon and of Andre Trocme. When he found out about this town and this man, he knew he had to write about it, not as an example of goodness or moral nobility; not for an abstract end. Rather, he was going to use "the words of ethics to help me understand my deeply felt ethical praise for the deeds of the people of Le Chambon."

And so Hallie shares the story he discovered. And it is an amazing story, the subject of which is a small village of men and women, the vast majority of whom were of Huguenot stock. Andre Trocme, their pastor and leader, was clearly a strange and unorthodox man. He seems to have been driven primarily by his love for Jesus and his respect for the teachings of Jesus, especially as they related to peace. Trocme was a pacifist whose standards of morality were strict. While he might carry a forged identity card, he would refuse to give a false name for himself. He was morally opposed to the war and to all violent forms of resistance. Yet at the same time he was a man of violent temper who often quarrelled loudly and angrily with his wife. And yet he was a man who was more than willing to lay down his life for those who were in danger.

Like many biographies of Christians that are written by unbelievers, it is difficult to know just what to believe about the man. Naturally, an author who is not filled with the Holy Spirit cannot fully understand one who is. I know little of Trocme other than what Hallie tells about him, yet if Hallie is to be believed, Trocme rarely preached about anything other than pacifism. He loved Jesus, but rarely seemed to discuss many of the great truths of the Christian faith. Is this the truth or is this merely Hallie's understanding of the truth? Did Trocme understand the gospel or was he merely a "good man?" Were his actions an expression of the Spirit's work in his life? It is difficult to know and this book offers few definitive answers.

What we do know is that Trocme was, in many ways, a tortured individual. Sadly, the death of his eldest son, the one whom he expected to carry on his work, left Trocme deeply suspicious of God so that he lived the last thirty years of his life after the war with a terrible skepticism. "[N]ever again would he believe that God protects precious life. Never again could he pray to a Protector-God. From now on, God and Jesus were to him powerless, suffering, limited. God was still the Father, but He was as powerless as Trocme the father was. God could only join us in our grief, not save us from it. He never recovered from the loss of his son and, tragically, never did his wife who, it seems, never did turn to Christ as her Savior. At this time she "turned her back on all religion, and on her husband as pastor, so that their marriage for a while was very painful, and later her criticisms of religion went back to their old severity."

Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed is a book that is at the same time inspiring and tragic. The hero of the story is courageous, but deeply flawed. Motivated by his desire to emulate Christ, he accomplished much and saved hundreds or even thousands of lives, all the while holding up the strict standards of morality he felt Christ required of him. This book is a study of character and a study of morality and ethics within the context of great tribulation. While it is not a Christian book and is not written by a Christian author, it does show what God can do through flawed, imperfect people. Sadly, the author seems to have missed the power of God displayed in it. He concludes by saying, "For me, that awareness [of the preciousness of human life] is my awareness of God. I live with the same sentence in my mind that many of the victims of the concentration camps uttered as they walked to their deaths: Shema Israel, Adonoi Elohenu, Adonoi Echod (Hear, oh Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One). For me, the word Israel refers to all of us anarchic-hearted human beings, and the word God means the object of our undivided attention to the lucid mystery of being alive for others and for ourselves." Surely Hallie's hero Andre Trocme would disagree.

More powerful than evil.......2005-08-16

Philip Hallie, a Jewish philosopher, had slipped in to a state of depression as a result of his research of human cruelty, especially regarding the Holocaust. He felt as though he was a prisoner in that he wished harm on evil doers and had himself become untouched by suffering. He was doing research when he noticed something unusual, he was weeping. The reason? He had come across a short article about a village in France, which had resisted Hitler during the French Occupation (1940-1944). The village was the pacifistic Le Chambon.

The book at hand is the result of Hallie's research (conducted in mid 1970's) into the events surrounding this village. He visited Le Chambon and interviewed several people. The main character of the resistance was André Trocmé (deceased in 1971), a Protestant pastor, who with help of many-including his wife, Magda-provided a safe haven for Jews (especially Jewish children). The book essentially covers the years 1934-1944, with many anecdotes and observations. The bottom line for Hallie is that `ethics' can only make a difference if action is taken. The people of Le Chambon simply helped the Jews because `it was the right thing to do.'

This book is an easy read yet one that will make the reader think. There is an implicit religious basis for the peoples' ethics but a strength of the book is that there are no saints. Especially prevalent is André Trocmé's humanity; he struggles immensely with death, especially of his mother and one of his sons. If you are looking for a morality based on deep and explicit theology you will not find it here. But everyone should take the following from this book: if your ethical stance is to lessen the evil in this world, then helping those who are in harm's way is as powerful, if not more so, than any show of violence.

inspiring story, but fragmented writing.......2004-12-06

The true story told in this book is amazing, inspiring, and miraculous. More people should know about it!! Pastor Trocme was the leader of the resistance, and much of the book is about him and his family. He was Pastor in a little Protestant town in France, and he and his townspeople saved the lives of hundreds of Jewish children.
However, I think the book could have been better written. I hesitate to recommend the book to others because I think they would have a hard time getting through it. The story is fragmented. It is not really told chronologically. Each chapter tells a different part/aspect of the overall story. By the time you finish reading the book, the different parts of the puzzle have come together...but its telling is not smooth.
To give the author some credit, he did have a challenging job to write this book so long after the fact. He had to piece together many pieces...through research, reading old diaries and letters, interviewing the handful of still-living people involved in the story, etc. But I still think it could have been "put together" in a better way.
Perhaps someone should write a shorter, less-detailed narrative about this town - that way it might have a wider reading audience. Again, it is an incredible and inspiring story that needs to be told!

A poor look at ethical wealth.......2002-10-08

I was asked to contrast this book to Christopher Browning's _Ordinary Men_ for a class in Comparative Religious Ethics. While this proved to be an intresting exercise, Philip Hallie's unpolished tale of Le Chambon, a stop on France's "Underground Railroad" for WWII refugees, suffers in the comparison.

Hallie makes tentative steps towards a biography of Andre Trocme (the town's pastor), a specific and narrow history of a French town in WWII, a case study in ethics, and a testimony of praise for people he grew to admire in his research. None of these directions arrive at any satisfying destination, leaving the narrative feeling disorganized and lacking the import the story might have held.

In spite of the ways Hallie's approach disappointed me, I would still recommend this book to those people who enjoy reading simple modern morality tales told in terms of "good vs. evil", or those who want some rather saccharine optimism about human nature in their histories of WWII.

Moving, challenging, insightful.......2000-06-26

Hallie is a brilliant writer and researcher who tells an amazing story of courage and faith. In it he demonstrates how "decent" people who stay inactive out of cowardice and indifference--when around them human beings are humiliated and destroyed--are the most dangerous people in the world. I didn't need his closing thoughts on ethics, and I would like to have learned more about what the villagers themselves did to protect the refugees. But the parts the author did well were so astonishing, it still gets five stars. It left me asking myself, "What exploited people groups can I help and how?"

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The Blood of the Innocents
IlaJean Kragthorpe
Manufacturer: PublishAmerica
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ASIN: 142416902X
Release Date: 2007-03-05

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The Blood of the Innocents is a story of love and hate, passion and remorse, guilt and redemption. Our nation's social fabric of the 1960s to 1992, shared through the lives and conversations of the hero and heroine, serves as the background. Both are victims of the shedding of innocent blood. In Selma, Alabama, his family was murdered by the Klan; she was violently raped by two black youths. Eight years later, these two meet. The story of their forbidden love—she is married by this time—is complex, tender, and passionate, surviving separation and scandal. The struggle, the anguish for the answer to “Why?” in the shedding of innocent blood is universal and timeless. The responses of these two people and the story of their love—though it is forbidden—hold a message of redemption, regeneration, and grace.

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it was ok, the manga was betther though.....

Naruto: Innocent Heart, Demonic Blood
Masashi Kishimoto
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it was ok, the manga was betther though............2007-09-11

the book was pretty bad.....it was basically just someone writing with a picture every 5 pages..... and they only wrote up to when zabuza dies. i recommend the manga, because this one was nothing special, and the manga rocks! the anime is pretty good too, so don't waste your money on this.

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A true Account of A Difficult Event
A Sensationalist Account of an Important Case
The Best Book About the West Memphis 3 Case Ever Written
Read "Devil's Knot" first!
Guy Reel thought they were guilty

Blood of Innocents
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A true Account of A Difficult Event.......2007-10-02

Those who reviewed this book prior to me are MISTAKEN that this book is untrue. It was written in part by the reporter who was covering this case for the local newspaper during the 2 years it took place.

This is the story the "other side" doesn't want you to hear. Namely, the FACTS in the case as they unfolded. He is unbiased in explaing why 3 teenage boys were arrested and eventually convicted in the brutal murder of 3 young grade school boys in the town of W. Memphis, Arkansas. The reporter does an excellent job of reporting both positive and negative behaviors of the community, families of all 6 boys, the police department, and those involved.

Take a chance: become informed as to why these boys came to be in jail. Everything contained in this book can be verified through newspaper articles and police reports, both before the murder and after.

It was not written to smear anyone, but rather to explain why a case that to outsiders appeared to be a "witch hunt" unfolded. Testimonies of many individual are given. The author wrote what he reported as he saw it unfolding in court.

A Sensationalist Account of an Important Case.......2007-08-07

Two books have been written on this case; if you're only going to read one, though, do not choose this one. This case has turned out to be a very controversial one with seriously troubling questions about the manner in which the defendants were identified, incriminated, and prosecuted. But these authors, two of whom covered the trial as newspaper reporters, pretty much miss the story concerning those issues and instead choose to report on every lurid bit of unsubstantiated rumor and gossip concerning Satanic rituals and orgies and sacrifices that they can find; no tale is too absurd, no accusation too outrageous, to be harped on. A goth magazine found in the trash of one of the defendant's girlfriends gets twice as much ink (two pages worth) as the trial testimony of a defense expert witness on false confessions, an issue that is perhaps the central point of contention in this case. Two more pages go to a juvenile in confinement who is obviously improvising a false story about local Satanic street gangs affiliated with Bloods and Crips, while another defense expert who testifies about the lack of factual evidence or scientific basis to support the then-trendy theory of a national occult crime wave gets less than one page.

Like national reporters who have recently been embarrassed by simply believing and uncritically reporting stories from government officials about things such as the Jessica Lynch ordeal, stories which it is now obvious were largely invented by those officials, these reporters basically accepted the word of the authorities - prosecution and police - hook, line, and sinker without doing any critical investigatory work. To take one example that represents the blind trust that these reporters had in the accuracy of what they were being told by officials, the authors repeatedly express how amazing of a coincidence it is that the case number happened to be 0666; it seems so improbable that a case in which the police claim teenage Satanists were involved would happen to get, just by chance, the number of the beast. But they quote the lead detective as their authority that this is purely a coincidence, and they accept his word. Had they only paid a bit more attention to the case files, though, they would have discovered what the author of the other book on this case discovered, which is that the earliest reports from this case were originally numbered 0555; apparently, this was not some "coincidence" after all, but a deliberate act.

The book's Postscript, written years after the rest of the text, does acknowledge, though, that the authors may have erred when they wrote the disputable claim that, at the conclusion of the sentencing phase of the defendant Damien Echols, "all doubts that police had the wrong man began to evaporate." Apparently with the benefit of some hindsight, they have revised their stance and now claim that "given the void of evidence in this case - and developments since the trials - Echols' contentions [of innocence] may merit another look."

And another book. "Devil's Knot" is a superior account in almost every way. However, all of this is not to say that "The Blood of Innocents" is not worth reading at all. It can be seen as a supplement to the other book; it does contain some useful background and interesting descriptions of the towns involved, and it describes early leads and police interrogations of other initial suspects that went nowhere. But for a detailed, accurate, insightful account of how this case unfolded, you have to look elsewhere.

The Best Book About the West Memphis 3 Case Ever Written.......2007-03-05

Written in an objective newspaper style, Blood of Innocents is the single best book yet written about the West Memphis murder case of 1993 in which 3 eight year olds were sadistically murdered, tortured and mutilated.

Unlike the grossly overrated Devil's Knot, this book does not feature any elaborate conspiracy theories about "satanic panic" and police skullduggery. Instead, it lays out the evidence against the 3 criminals and does so in throughly convincing fashion.

Ignore the conspiracy theory hype, Blood of Innocents lays the facts out for all those who really care about the truth in this case.

Heartily recommended.

Read "Devil's Knot" first!.......2004-07-16

This book is long on supposition and short on objective fact. In a nut shell, the book seems to say "The WM3 are guilty-take my word on it-don't be confused by facts, the story flows so thats all you need to know." Unfortunately the Arkansas penile system (and jury pool)seems to think this way too. The book is a must read for anyone interested in the case...if for nothing else than to get into the heads of the other side.

Guy Reel thought they were guilty.......2003-12-09

This book is detailed about the event. It doesn't read very well, but it certainly gives you a feel for the type of people who were involved in this case.

I know the roommate of Guy Reel's girlfriend from the time he was writing the book. She told me that Guy Reel said he though the three boys convicted of the crime were guilty. Keep that in mind while reading this book.

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A true Account of A Difficult Event

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Slanted and Irrelevant Story

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Blood of Innocents: The True Story of Multiple Murder in West Memphis, Arkansas
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A true Account of A Difficult Event.......2007-09-29

Those who reviewed this book prior to me are MISTAKEN that this book is untrue. It was written by the reporter who was covering this case for the local newspaper during the 2 years it took place.

This is the story the "other side" doesn't want you to hear. Namely, the FACTS in the case as they unfolded. He is unbiased in explaing why 3 teenage boys were arrested and eventually convicted in the brutal murder of 3 young grade school boys in the town of W. Memphis, Arkansas. The reporter does an excellent job of reporting both positive and negative behaviors of the community, families of all 6 boys, the police department, and those involved.

Take a chance: become informed as to why these boys came to be in jail. Everything contained in this book can be verified through newspaper articles and police reports, both before the murder and after.

It was not written to smear anyone, but rather to explain why a case that to outsiders appeared to be a "whitch hunt" unfolded. Testimonies of many individual are given. The author wrote what he reported as he saw it unfolding in court.

A Sensationalist Account of an Important Case.......2007-08-07

Slanted and Irrelevant Story.......2007-06-14

I bought this book after viewing the documentary, Paradise Lost. I was disapointed. I was expecting and hoping for an unbiased account of this brutal, terrifying crime. Instead, I bought a poorly-written and biased account of the crimes.
Instead of focusing on the sensational crimes and the "Satanism Scare" that plauged the media for months, Blood of Innocents focued more on descriptions of the city and tedious biographies of minor characters.
For those interested in the case of the "West Memphis Three," I would suggest they search elsewhere.

The Best Book About the West Memphis 3 Case Yet Written.......2007-02-13

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Blood of the Innocents
Chris Collett
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Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed the Story Of
Philip Hallie
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Innocent Blood (The Gunsmith, Book 285)
J. R. Roberts
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Clint Adams is after a maniac who skins young girls to death. He's partnered with the sister of one victim, a tough gunfighter who won't stop until she looks the wily killer in the eye--down the barrel of a gun.

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Innocent Blood
Graham Masterton
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When a terrorist bomb devastates an exclusive junior school in Hollywood, killing the sons and daughters of many famous TV and movie actors and producers, all hell breaks loose. Among the many dead is Danny Bell, the son of successful comedy writer Frank Bell. Responsibility for the blast is claimed by a group who say that they want to put the decadent Western media out of business for good. But when Frank meets up with another survivor of the blast, the strange and alluring Astrid, he begins to question if this was a terrorist attack at all. As more bombs go off, causing havoc at TV studios and theme parks, Frank enlists Astrid's help and that of a celebrated psychic detective and at last begins to piece together the tragic secret behind the terror campaign. Soon his eyes are opened to a world in which the dead are never gone for ever. But he also has to come face to face with real and absolute evil . . .

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