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Im Sommer 2018 zieht die alle zehn Jahre stattfindende Wallfahrt zum Revolver Christi so viele Besucher an wie nie zuvor. Ausgestellt ist neben der Reliquie in der Kathedrale auch eine der drei erhaltenen Ikonen des Christus an der Waffe. 110 Jahre nach dem Tod eines Elektrikerlehrlings, den man mit einem Kopfschuss aus dem Revolver Christi getötet auf den Stufen des Chorraums auffand, fällt in der Kathedrale erneut ein Schuss... Anna Albinus nimmt in ihrem klassischen, eleganten Erzählton unmerklich Anlauf, als wäre nichts, und unversehens findet man sich in einer anderen Welt.

Even in the chill of February, no place touches Harper McClain's heart like Savannah. She should be walking beneath the historic city's towering oaks, surrounded by graceful mansions. Instead, she's hiding miles away on Tybee Island after a mysterious voice on the phone warned her that someone wanted her dead. The call was too specific to ignore. The caller knew everything about her. But that was months ago, and she's getting tired of being scared.

Acquired wisdom has always put Sgt. Pepper at the head of the class, but it was Revolver that truly signaled The Beatles' sea change from a functional band to a studio-based ensemble. These changes began before Rubber Soul but came to fruition on Revolver, which took an astonishing 300 hours to produce, far more than any rock record before it.

Brilliantly told, Revolver brings the brazenly ambitious and profoundly innovative industrialist and leader Samuel Colt to vivid life. In the space of his 47 years, he seemingly lived five lives: He traveled, womanized, drank prodigiously, smuggled guns to Russia, bribed politicians, and supplied the Union Army with the guns they needed to win the Civil War. Colt lived during an age of promise and progress, but also of slavery, corruption, and unbridled greed, and he not only helped to create this America, he completely embodied it.

Philadelphia, 1965: Two street cops—one black, one white—are gunned down in a corner bar. One of the fallen officers, Stan Walczak, leaves behind a 12-year-old boy, Jimmy. Philadelphia, 1995: Homicide detective Jim Walczak learns that his father's alleged killer, Terrill Lee Stanton, has been sprung from prison. Jim stalks the ex-con, hoping to finally learn the truth.

In an isolated cabin in an Arctic wilderness, 14-year-old Sig is alone with a corpse: his father, who has fallen through the ice on the lake outside and frozen to death only hours earlier. Then, out of the Arctic darkness, comes a stranger: a terrifying giant of a man claiming that Sig’s father owes him a share of a horde of stolen gold - and threatening awful violence if Sig doesn’t reveal the gold’s whereabouts.

Cara Stone is a broken woman: penniless, homeless, and hopeless. When given the chance to appear on television, she jumps at the opportunity to win a minimum of $5,000 for her family.

This story revolves around the life of a revolver. There are no main characters or supporting actors throughout the story. Instead, the revolver is the main focus as it travels from one owner to the next. The star of this feature is a pearl-handled .38 caliber snub-nosed revolver. We follow the weapon through its life in a small city somewhere in South Texas.