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《白城恶魔》是美国作家埃里克·拉森的长篇犯罪纪实小说代表作。
1893年，镀金时代的美国，芝加哥世界博览会即将举行，旧世界正在崩塌，荣耀与罪恶争相上演。
总设计师伯纳姆孜孜以求，集合知名的建筑师和规划师，只为打造一场令世人赞叹的世博会，重塑芝加哥的形象。他说，这不会只是一个梦。
而在几个街区之外，一位年轻英俊的医生踏出列车，手中提着手术箱。对不知道他隐秘嗜好的女性而言，他的外表充满了魅力。他走入这个充满喧哗、雾霾和蒸汽的世界，在心中勾勒出了一座“神秘旅馆”，在那里，所有隐秘邪恶的梦想都将实现……
“我不能不杀人，就像诗人一样，灵感一来就不能不吟唱。”《白城恶魔》以富于诗意和张力的纪实性语言，交替描写了世博会的建造和杀人恶魔的疯狂。这个故事是如此丰盛，又如此邪恶，让每个人赞叹不已，又充满恐惧。
作者简介······
埃里克·拉森（Erik Larson）
美国作家、记者，生于1954年。曾任《纽约客》《大西洋月刊》《时代杂志》撰稿人，《华尔街日报》特约撰稿人，曾在旧金山约翰·霍普金斯写作研讨会和俄勒冈大学教授非虚构写作，现在和妻子定居西雅图。
代表作有《白城恶魔》《艾萨克飓风》《致命通道》《无线电擒凶记》等。其中《白城恶魔》获美国国家图书奖提名，并于2004年获爱伦·坡奖最佳犯罪实录。《芝加哥太阳报》将他评价为“拥有小说家灵魂的历史学家”。
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The Devil in the White City is a masterpiece of American writer Eric Larson's long crime fiction.
In 1893, Gilded Age America, the Chicago World's Fair is about to be held, and the old world is collapsing, glory and sin are competing.
Chief Designer Burnham worked tirelessly to bring together renowned architects and planners to create an amazing World's Fair and to remake Chicago's image. 'It's not just a dream,' he said.
A few blocks away, a handsome young doctor stepped out of the train with a surgical kit in his hand. To women who do not know his secret hobbies, his appearance is full of charm. He stepped into this world full of noise, haze and steam, and outlined in his mind a "mystery hotel" where all the secret and evil dreams would come true...
"I can't help but kill, just as a poet can't help but sing when inspiration comes." The Devil in the White City alternates between the construction of the World Expo and the madness of the murderous demon with poetic and intense documentary language. The story was so rich and so evil that it amazed and filled everyone with fear.
About the author
By Erik Larson
American writer and journalist, born 1954. A former writer for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Time Magazine, and a staff writer for the Wall Street Journal, he taught nonfiction writing at the Johns Hopkins Writing Symposium in San Francisco and at the University of Oregon. He and his wife now live in Seattle.
Masterpieces include "The Devil in the White City", "Hurricane Isaac", "Fatal Passage", "Radio Capture" and so on. The Devil in the White City was nominated for the National Book Award and won the POE Award for Best Crime in 2004. The Chicago Sun-Times described him as "a historian with the soul of a novelist."
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