Blood Rites - Softcover

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jimmy Lee Shreeve is a journalist who has written for the Guardian, Independent, Financial Times, Daily Star, Sun, Midweek, The X Factor, amongst others. He has been called 'the British heir to Hunter S. Thompson's early gonzo journalism', and Jimmy likes to think he's taken as many hallucinogens as the great Hunter, but he can't be sure. He also hosts his own radio show -- Crime Rap Hour -- which has a dedicated following. When Jimmy isn't writing, you can find him playing blues music at downtrodden bars, or performing ritual ceremonies on Hampstead Heath.

Von der hinteren Coverseite

London, England, 2001: The dismembered torso of a five-year-old boy is found floating in the Thames, the victim of a Ju Ju ritual sacrifice.

New Jersey, USA, 2002: A Palo Mayombe sect temple basement is raided by police, who find human body parts and the remains of several animals seemingly sacrificed by worshippers.

Lima, Peru, 2004: The body of a decapitated baby boy is found on a hilltop, surrounded by flowers, a liquor bottle and a container of blood, apparently the victim of a ritual sacrifice to appease a pre-Columbian earth god...

Welcome to the world of ritual sacrifice.

Around the world, humans are being trafficked, kidnapped, sold and enslaved, for the specific purpose of sacrifice. Mass-scale migration has seen these gruesome techniques exported from the land of the Aztecs -- and finding their way into Britain and the US. Voodoo priests in London have been linked with ritual murders. And a recent leaked police commissioned report found that witchcraft, voodoo-related abuse and murder, is rife in the UK.

Jimmy Lee Shreeve takes us on a journey into the darkest corners of the world, following the initial investigations of Scotland Yard into the Thames murder, travelling to South Africa and then Nigeria, where the full horror of a wide 'export trade' in humans to Britain for sacrifice is unveiled. He unveils a depraved US-based Cuban religious cult linked with a score of sacrifices and murders, and travels to Mexico, where a devotee of Palo Mayombe, Adolof de Jesus Constanzo, was responsible for torturing and boiling in a cauldron more than a dozen victims. Blood Rites is a gruesome, disturbing look at the dark, sick world of twenty-first century ritual murder.