murderous

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But his accumulation of these works is outpaced by his prolific amassing of copies of “Clubland: The Fabulous Rise and Murderous Fall of Club Culture,” a favorably reviewed nonfiction book published in 2003.

From Washington Post • Mar. 8, 2022

When I was 13, I began to channel a burgeoning obsession with the Tudors into an evolving plan—How to Outmaneuver an All-Powerful and Murderous King.

From Slate • Apr. 3, 2015

His book To Katanga and Back and his play Murderous Angels were indictments of the role of the U.S. and Europe in the Congo war.

From Time Magazine Archive

Murderous Angels probes the motives and characters of Patrice Lumumba and Dag Hammarskjold as seen by Conor Cruise O'Brien, who was himself in the Congo as head of U.N. operations in Katanga.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Nonsense, dear. Without peasants, who would do all the work? Anyway, it wasn’t peasants; it was pheasants. Murderous pheasants.”

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood