The Book of revelation

By Rupert Thomson

Subjects: Male rape victims, Fiction, general, Abduction, Male dancers, Victims of crimes, Amsterdam (netherlands), fiction, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, Fiction, thrillers, general, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, Dancers, Psychology, Fiction, horror

Description: Stepping out of his Amsterdam studio one April afternoon to buy cigarettes for his girlfriend, a dashing 29-year old Englishman reflects on their wonderful seven-year relationship, and his stellar career as an internationally acclaimed dancer and choreographer. But the nameless protagonist's destiny takes an unthinkably horrifying turn when a trio of mysterious cloaked and hooded women kidnap him, chain him to the floor of a stark white room to keep as their sexual prisoner, and subjected him to eighteen days of humiliation, mutilation, and rape. Then, after a bizarrely public performance, he is released, only to be held captive in the purgatory of his own guilt and torment: The realization that no one will believe his strange story.