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Woods, Stuart: Under the Lake
UNDER THE LAKE
Stuart Woods was born in a small Georgia town.
After universi:ty, he started his writing career in advertising. He worked in
New York and London. Then he moved to Ireland and started to write his first
novell 'Chiefs". This book won the Edgar Allan Poe award from the Mystery
Writers of America. Now he lives in America and whenever he has time, he is on a
holiday on the Isle of Wight. "'
Characters:
John Orwell: He is a very good known reporter
and works for the newspaper "Atlanta Constitution".At this time he tries himself
in writing books.
Heather Miller McDonald: She is known as Scotty
and she also works at "Atlanta Constitution".She is sent to Sutherland, because
she should uncover Bo Scully's dirty deals.
The plot: Lurton Pitts asks John Orwell if he
wants to write his biographie and he invites him to write the book in a cabin in
Sutherland. John agrees and drives to this place. He sometimes goes to Bubba's.
a little restaurant and once he meets there McAuliffe, a lawyer. When he comes
back to his car, a parking ticket is waiting for him. So John drives to the
office of Bo, a policeman. There he meets Scotty. Her assumed name is Heather
McDonald.
Some nights later, there is a great storm and
John wakes up.Then he sees a girl standing at the window and looking out of the
lake. John speaks to her, but she doesn't answere and walks out of the cabin.
John and Scotty become very good friends. At a
party they meet Helen. Jack and Joyce. They have a seance. The ghost says that
he wants to speak with Scotty, but nothing more happens. In this night Scotty
sleeps at John.s cabin and the girl comes again. They wake up, walk to her and
also look out of the window. The lake is gone and there is a street, a farm and
a car is driving to the house. Then the girl disappears and the lake is there
again.
The next day, John meets McAuljffe and teils
him what has happend last night and at the seance. McAuliffe overpowers himself
and teils John a secret story:
Once there has been a big valley and only some
people have lived at this place. Then Eric Sutherland has wanted to built a lake
there. He has had many banks behind him and so a lot of money. He has bought the
land of the families, who have lived there, but the O'Coineen family
hasn‘.t wanted to seIl their land. One night the farm has burned down and
the family has been disappeared, but Eric Sutherland's money has still been on
the bank. Nobody knows where they have gone.
John is very interested in this story. He wants
to get a map about the valley. but he doesn.t find one. Then he sees some maps
in Sutherland's office. In the following night, John and Scotty brake into the
office with a creditcard of Scotty, but then Sutherland's dog comes. John takes
a map and they run away. but Scotty loses her creditcard. So Bo finds out what
her right name is (Heather Miller
McDonald), but Scotty is also not lazy. She
finds out that Bo has many money in Switzerland and that he has a meeting at the
airport in a week.
A day before the meeting, John wants to visit
Eric, but he has died last night. Everybody means that he has made suicide, but
John thinks that he has been killed.
In the evening John and Scotty go to the
airport. At three o'clock the plane arrives. There are many men, who are waiting
for the plane.But then Scotty and John are caught and some men start to shoot
Scotty flees and John, who is hit, also runs away. They meet them in the cabin,
but there is Bo. He is very drunken and then he teIls the story, which John has
searched for:
Kathleen has phoned to Bo and has said that her
father, Donald O'Coineen, has wanted to seil the land. Bo has driven to the
farm. It has beer, very quiet there and so Bo has gone upstairs. There he has
found the others. Everybody has been dead. Kathleen has killed them. Then she
has taken her bags, after that they have blasted the farm and they have driven
away. Kathleen and Bo have lived in Atlanta and she has become pregnan. tBo has
brought the baby to the Georgia Boptist Children's Home in Hopeville.
Scotty says that she has been there and they
find out that Bo is her father. Then Kathleen appears and Bo shoots on her, but
she isn.t hurt. She walks out, Bo sees that the lake is gone and he follows her.
When he is walking to the farm, the lake comes back.
On ihe next day, the police find Bo. He is
dead. Scotty inherits a lot of land in Sutherland. She makes it over to
McAuliffe and goes back to Atlanta to write her story. John finishes Lurton
Pitts'biographie and after that, he goes to Africa and works for the "Times".
MyOpinion:
The story is in confusion and so it is a little
bit hard to read it, but it is a good and very exciting story.
Vocabularies:
cabin Hütte
assumed name Deckname
seance Geisterbeschwörung to overpower
überwinden to blaste sprengen
to make something over etwas überschreiben
in confusion durcheinarlder
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