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...youngster, he learns the tools of his trade quickly, throwing the blame for his own plots on others and magically convincing those around him to do what he asks. By the age of 24, Sobhraj is a man disowned by both father and nation, befriended only by a lone Frenchman named Felix, who annoyingly returns to save the prison-bound Charles time and time again. This is not a nice young man. "You should have let him stay in prison," Charles' father warns the young Frenchman. "He begged you and you believed him and took pity...
This is also the story of an apartment in Bangkok, and tourists lured there by a pleasant Frenchman, a beacon of polite familiarity in an unfamiliar continent. Thompson describes how one by one, couples and lone tourists fell prey to the magic of Sobhraj. Sobhraj's powers are almost impossible to fathom--as even the author admits--but the naivete of those who fall into his trap is even harder to understand. "Months later," Thompson writers, "an Interpol detective in Paris, would study the case and wonder why in the name of God these poor people didn't figure...
...lone Oriole run came in the bottom of the third when secondbaseman Rich Dauer tagged a Jim Bibby fastball for a bases-empty homerun...
Super senior Sue St. Louis tallied next when she took a tip from Cat Ferrante down the field past a lone Terrier fullback before left-footing it into...
...lone hope is that Harvard will redeem the weekend with a win. Bob Blackman, a longtime Dartmouth coach, now in his second year with Cornell, should be made to repent for staying so long in Hanover's fraternity land. And Joe Restic could use a break. (Oh, sorry Joe. I didn't mean a break in a quarterback...