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Kathy Reich’sFatal Voyage

Published 2001By Pocket Star BooksNew York, USAw/ 33 chapters

About Kathy (as seen on kathyreichs.com)

Kathy Reichs’s first novel Déjà Dead catapulted her to fame when it became a New York Times bestseller and won the 1997 Ellis Award for Best First Novel.

Temperance Brennan novelsin addition to Virals and Seizure,

two young adult fiction novels following the adventures of Temperance Brennan’s niece.

Dr. Reichs is also a producer of the hit Fox TV series, Bones, which is based on her work and her novels.

About Kathy

Dr. Reichs has travelled to Rwanda to testify at the UN Tribunal on Genocide, and helped exhume a mass grave in Guatemala.

As part of her work at JPAC (Formerly CILHI) she aided in the identification of war dead from World War II, Korea, and Southeast Asia. Dr. Reichs also assisted with identifying remains found at ground zero of the World Trade Center following the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

mass grave in Guatemala + 9/11 attack

About Kathy

Dr. Reichs is one of only eighty-two forensic anthropologists ever certified by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology.

Imagine this:

I stared at the woman flying through the trees. Her head was forward, chin raised, arms flung backward like the tiny chrome goddess on the hood of a Rolls Royce. But the tree lady was naked, and her body ended at the waist. Blood-coated leaves and branches imprisoned her. (chapter 1, first par., p.1)

Characters:

Temperance “Tempe” Brennan

Characters:

Andrew Ryan

PeteLucy CroweLarke Tyrell

Byron McMahon

Simon Midkiff

Prentice Dashwood

Ralph Stover

Setting

Swain Country, South of Bryson City, North Carolina

It all started…

Plane crash(Air TransSouth 228)

Why did the plane crashed?

Man-made? Technical?

Who did it?What went

wrong?

Why and How?

This is where

TEMPERANCE “TEMPE” BRENNAN Member: investigative agency, DMORT ( Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team)

Comes in…

Foot (via “coyote delivery”)

Abandoned cabin/inn??

3 Questions/Mysteries

What really happened (plane crash)?

Who owns the foot?Could the foot come from the nearby inn?

“There’s been a complaint” – Larke Tyrell

Chapter 8, p. 84-85

Unprofessional behaviour of a nature sufficient to compromise the investigation…

Entering a site w/o authority and mishandling of evidence

Trespass

Of course…

Our HEROINE had to do something…She had to prove her innocence

INVESIGATE ON HER OWN

Her first lead was the FOOT

WHO OWNS THE FOOT?

Crash related/Missing person incident?A tragic, savage rundown by a bunch of a wild coyotes

With the help of Tempe’s EX-husband,

Pete and Primrose Hobbs, they were soon

unto something…

However, a few days later…

PRIMROSE HOBBS was

found dead at Riverbank inn

A black volvo almost ran

down Tempe

her house was raided

-bulglars?-???

She became more anxious and curious…

Severed foot? Native-American? Male?

Who was out to get her?Who owned the abandoned cabin/courtyard house?

Does it have a relation with the plane crash?

As she went on with her little adventure, she

came across accounts of more death and was also putting herself in the face

of danger…

Now let’s start answering some of the questions…

Who owns the cabin???H&F investment Group, LLPApril 10, 1949Under the name of Prentice Dashwood

Who owns the foot??? Primary suspects are…

Daniel Wahnetah George Adair Jeremiah Mitchell A random passenger from Air TRansSouth 228

Let’s see the description suggested by findings…

Elderly male. Native-Am ancestry. Height five foot six. Dead last summer. Found near Arthur/H&F property. TransSouth passenger? Probably.

What’s up with the cabin??? Diary of Martin Patrick Veckhoff sent by his wife,

Marion Louise Willoughby Veckhoff

Code names: Omega Ilus - they went to the cabin & found… Khaffre Chac Itzmana

A basement with…

Four (4) chambers…

A sort of altar with images depicted on the walls…

And corpses and body parts…

Why did AirTransSouth 228 crashed? How?“ Eighty-eight people were dead

because one man was preoccupied about losing his seat.”

Walter Lindenbaum

Walter Lindenbaum

He’s a pipe smoker…

AND he’s also the reason why the plane crashed…

How?

First ignition –Pipe smoke left in his duffel

Second ignition –Electrical + fuel leak

Back to the cabin issue…

Took place in the basement of the courtyard house they found near the crash site…

Cannibalism

It was a sort of cult…

The Main characters of the story exchanged a few stories on the matter like that of Pope Innocent III (1215 A.D.)

The words hoc est corpus meum were to be taken literally… at Mass, the bread and wine are exchanged into the body and blood of Christ.

Innocent decreed that the act isn’t SYMBOLIC, it’s REAL… [and] defined the most sacred ceremonial act of Christianity as true God-eating.

Hostia – Latin, sacrificial victim

Let’s interrupt this and get back to Ms. Tempe…

Who (by this time in the story) is kidnapped and brought to the Riverbank inn after receiving a mysterious fax…

By who?

Ralph Stover

Mysterious fax…

On page 3777 Ilus – Henry Arlen Preston – 1943 Khaffre – Sheldon Brdie – 1949 Omega – A.A. Birkby – 1959 Normer – Martin Patrick Veckhoff Sinuhe – C.A. Birkby Itzmana – John Morgan - 1972 Arrigatore F.L. Warren Rho – William Glemi Shermann – 1979 Chac – John Franklin Battle Ometeotl – Parker Davenport

Luckily…

Our HEROINE didn’t sustain any serious injury and soon found out the whole truth…

Meet the Hell Fire Club…

H&F – Hell Fire

Flourished in the 18th Cin England and Ireland

Sir Francis Dashwood

Had a healthyskepticism for religion

According to Simon Midkiff…

“It started out as frivolous blasphemy… that eating the dead negated the finality of death.”

“A bloody accident. A young man showed up at the lodge one summer. God knows what he was doing way out there. There was a lot of drinking, a fight, the boy was killed. Prentice (Dashwood) proposed that everyone-“… “Prentice cut slivers of muscle from the boy’s thigh and required everyone to partake… it was a pact. Each was a participant and equally guilty. No one would talk about the boy’s death.”

Simon Midkiff (p. 412-413)

Answers to the question… (again)

WHO OWNS THE FOOT? Jeremiah Mitchell

Why did AirTransSouth 228 crashed? How? Pipe smoke started the fire + electrical failure

What’s up with the cabin? Who owns it? It was Hell Fire’s (H&F Investment Group, LLP)

property, where they performed cult rituals.

Who was out to get her? Ralph Stover, because Tempe knew too much and

because he wanted to get in the “inner circle” of H&F.

Thanks for listening… (and not listening)