He was on the yacht. His name Kennedy Billings, but he was only known as The Collector. This is the man that travels the world killing people and collecting body parts. As he sat under the warm Caribbean sun he thought about his fortune. How he found the hole in the stock market and took advantage. Everyone hated him. The man that stole their money. But they didn 't even know who he was... what he was. Just fifteen miles away the man that would prove the largest adversary of the Collector was sitting at a bar in Key West drinking himself to death. His name was John Fish. Shot after shot of cheap vodka, numbing him from the horror of the world. As he sat there and thought to himself about his life and the stock …show more content…
He started the short walk from chamber to main deck thinking about his first kill. The money he got from it and what he did with that money. Because you see Kennedy Billing was not only a serial killer he was the richest man alive. With a fleet of boats undetectable from the United States and enough money to buy anything Kennedy could do anything he wanted. His money was not obtained in the most legal way per se. You see Mr. Billings though very crazy was very smart and figured out how to cheat the stock market with just 1,000 dollars from his first victim, he made over 100 billion. The American people furious with the stock market traders needed someone to blame so when he anonymously took credit for his work, he became an international most wanted criminal. John could figure out a few things from his past life. This man was very rich, he had all the gear, and he could go anywhere without anyone knowing. Perhaps by boat and certainly not plane because no flight records showed any overly extravagant people going to the kill sites. With this he concluded that the man was rich and he used small boats probably from a larger boat to sneark ashore and kill his victims. This was not enough to go on however so the investigation took a turn to where he would strike next. Every victim lived somewhere Equatorial, except for one odd victim. The kill appeared in the same fashion but it happened in Harlem and the blood was not drained. Now this
The story “The Most Dangerous Game” begins by introducing two characters; Whitney and Rainsford. We automatically find out that they are on a yacht talking of an island named “Ship-Trap Island”, a place that sailors dread and avoid. The two men, Whitney and Rainsford falls off the yacht after the sound of gun shots steal his attention. Rainsford swims toward the gunshots then hears the screeching sound of an animal. Finally, Rainsford reaches the rocky shore and falls asleep. When Rainsford awakens he sets out to find food but ends up finding an empty rifle cartridge and human footprints. Rainsford follows the footprints and runs into hunters Ivan and General Zaroff.
A man by the name of Alex Goodfellow has swindled Tom’s father of his money after apparently selling him an outstanding vessel along with its own crew. Instead, Mr.Goodfellow gave tom’s father the exact opposite, a rundown ship which was bound to cause problems. Eventually, the ship Tom’s father once thought was his big break, had sunk while Mr. Goodfellow reaped the insurance reward. To make matters even worse, Tom’s father was put in debtor’s prison. Tom struggled with the thought of his father going to prison for something which wasn’t actually his fault, so Tom decided to take action. He made a plan to run away and get revenge on his father’s swindler. Along the way he met an interesting character who was blind. Knowing that the man possessed a rare jewel, Tom took it in the hopes it would bring provide him money for his family the much needed money. Further into his journey, Tom comes across a gravedigger named Worms. Worms teaches Tom how to dig up the bodies of the dead and introduces him to other robbers. Interestingly enough, these robbers are kids just like Tom, who rob from people living amougst them in the sewers. Tom befriends Darkey and Benjamin Penny, who teach Tom their robbing ways. Then, things take a turn for the worst. The police find Tom robbing another man and arrest him. However, in one of the biggest plot twists, Tom is found not found guilty for robbing, but for murder. Of course Tom did not
O’Reilly starts out Killing Kennedy by beginning with an incident of how Kennedy has cheated death before he was even president. In 1943, while Kennedy was a lieutenant in World War II, his vessel was ruined by the Japanese and Kennedy was stranded in the ocean for many hours, almost losing his life. The
The Boat is a short story written by Alistair MacLeod in 1968. The story is narrated by a boy when after he has grown up and become a professor at Midwestern university in Cape Breton, east Canada. The narrator reflects on how events in his childhood have shaped the man he is today. He speaks about his family and the cold, frosty fishing community in Nova Scotia they belonged to. There is a somber tone and a presence of sadness, dismay and death throughout the extract. It is told in the first person, which allows for the emotions of characters to be expressed the most precise. This way, themes and symbols of the short story are carried across to the reader better. The narrator recalls his youthful teenage years as the only son, and youngest
At the age of twenty-four, John joined the Navy. He was stationed in the South Pacific during his whole time in the Navy. Towards the end of his journey in the Navy, John’s Boat was attacked by a Japanese
But there was this one day, they had somebody putting people in harm and more people had already needed help. His name was Evil Man and John didn’t think he would be able to stop him. He was already trying to help people who needed help before that. Then he heard about the bad guy Evil Man.
Jimmy Valentine, the magnificent bank robber, or should I say Ralph D. Spencer, the honest family man, made a very large transition throughout his life. Jimmy Valentine was an amazing man at times. Other times, he was one of the world’s best bank robbers. He could get into almost any safe imaginable in a very short amount of time. This habit disappeared the moment he met Mrs.Annabel Adams. Jimmy Valentine, because he was getting rid of his tools, stopped robbing banks, and wanted the best life for him and Annabel, was truly dedicated to living a moral life.
man in the town. He made many enemies on his way to the top as a banker.
He went to school on helicopters and planes. These kids that were jealous of him made a vicious plan on killing him. There plan was to get into the helicopter of which Big Boy John was going to go on. Even with about 20,000 bodyguards that Big Boy John has they still somehow got into the helicopter without having anyone notice and by the way there are 6 of these jealous friends. Once the helicopter took of is when they tried to kill him. One thing to know is that on the helicopter is only the pilot, Big Boy John and these horrible 6 kids, Big Boy John thought they were his friends. All of a sudden they popped out of the seats with guns to Big Boy John’s head. They shot him in the head about 121,467 times. But nothing was happening to him. That’s because his head was made of Iron. The kids eventually gave up and just jumped out of the helicopter, risking their
1) Rich businessmen maintained yachts principally to demonstrate their financial strength to their peers. In Richard Barry’s “Private Yachts Which Cost Rich Men Heavily,” he describes the overwhelming cost of maintaining a large yacht year round, stating “They eat up money so rapidly that none but multi-millionaires have an right to draw cards in the game. A mere millionaire had better not apply; only multis are eligible.” By owning one of these vessels, a businessman could flex his financial muscles and show his companions, as well as the rest of the world, just how rich he was. Additionally, yachts gave businessmen a feeling of power and invincibility (similar to the feelings they got during corporate dealings) as they were able to endure harsh storms and long journeys.
John stood there in Purgatory waiting for Lee Harvey Oswald. He had heard other people from Purgatory coming up to him and telling him what happened. As humans we all break sins sometimes. Mr. Oswald had just broke one of the greatest sins. One of the sins says “Thou shall not kill” and Harvey had done just exactly that. John went searching for Harvey. He looked through trees, on the ground, and in the river. There were no signs of the horrifying man.
John sutter had just then hired a few people to build a sawmill for the town and James Marshall was one of the workers there. On that day James saw tiny pieces of gold in the runoff millwater. He collected some of the small pieces of gold and brought them to John who swore James to secrecy. But James hadn’t been the only one who knew about all of this gold. The story had been passed on and soon after a publisher named Samuel Brennan was walking down the streets of San Francisco carrying a jar full of gold. Most of the people who once owned all of that gold
One day, Charley, who is a successful business man, receives word that his father, a man with whom he had not spoken in years, had died back in Cincinnati, Ohio. He returns to his childhood home to take care of his father's property, only to find out that virtually all of his dad's
John Anthony Walker was born on July 28, 1937 in Washington, D.C. Walker was the second of three boys to Margaret Scaramuzzo and James Vincent Walker. Due to Mr. Walker’s career working as a marketer for Warner Brother’s, his job required the Walker family to travel quite often when Walker was a child. The family ended up settling in Scranton, Pennsylvania where he remained until he joined the Navy. James Walker was known as a drunk and at times would physically abuse his wife Margaret and his three boys. Through James ' careless behavior and alcoholism, he drove his family into bankruptcy. John’s hatred for his father grew over time, to the point John conspired for almost a week on how he could murder his father (Spymusium, 2015). John abandoned the plot to kill his father and James eventually abandoned the family instead. Although Walker was known as “Smilin’ Jack,” and was an Alter boy at the Catholic school he attended, Walker was known to be the most reckless of the three brothers, eventually dropping out of school (Watson, 2014). When John was 17, he was apprehended by the Scranton Police Department after he burglarized a gas station, men’s clothing store, and led the police on a high speed chase. In an effort to keep John out of prison, John’s older brother Author, along with the defense attorney’s plead with the judge to allow John to join the United States Navy. Arthur Walker was a US Navy Lieutenant Commander at the
After this, he moved to New York, New York and was basically starving because he had no money. He walked down the street and begged for a cup of tea from the person at a drink stand. Then he noticed a crowd standing around a broken stock ticker. He made his way through the crowd and saw the owner who was panicking because he needed it