Edited by Caro1970 at 10-06-2023 19:11
William Darnell thought he had seen every kind of humanconflict, every type of human tragedy, seen them in all their immense variety:murder done from envy, murder done for revenge, murder done for money, murderdone for love, murder done after careful planning, murder done in a moment'srage. He had known, and defended, every kind of murderer, all ofthem, despite their differences, driven by the same desire, known since Cainslew Abel: the need to kill because, in their twisted imaginations, it was theonly way their own lives would be worth living. He had known them all, and ifthere was something he had missed, it was in all probability now too late. Butthat was before he knew Adam and began the strangest case of his long career.It was not just the strangest case he had ever tried; it was the strangest caseever tried by any lawyer anywhere. It was impossible to explain; or rather,impossible to believe. The defendant, who did not speak English or any otherlanguage anyone could identify, had been found on an island no one knewexisted, and charged with murder, rape and incest. He was given the name Adam,and Adam, as Darnell comes to learn, is more intelligent, quicker to learn,than anyone he has ever met. Adam, he learns to his astonishment, is a member of anancient civilization that has remained undiscovered for more than threethousand years. William Darnell had promised to retire after a trial in whichthe captain of a luxury yacht that went down in the Atlantic is charged withmurder because of what had been done to survive during the forty days they werelost at sea. He breaks that promise to take a case that rescues from theoblivion of time the lost tribe of Atlantis that has somehow managed to surviveon an island in the Pacific. The critically acclaimed Evangeline was about thetrials of the human soul; The Dark Backward tells a tale about both the limits,and the power, of the human imagination. It leaves you with the questionwhether Atlantis was nothing more than an ancient myth, or might still exist.William Darnell, to his own astonishment, discovers that what he had alwaysbelieved was wrong.
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