Kathy Reichs' novel Fatal Voyage involves the investigation of a plane crash. Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan is called to assist. She receives a severed foot and begins investigating on her own. Her inquiries lead her to an abandoned cabin owned by a mysterious group. She discovers the group, known as the Hell Fire Club, performed cult rituals there involving cannibalism. Temperance is eventually kidnapped and learns the truth: the plane crash was caused by a passenger's pipe smoke and the cult wanted to keep their activities secret.

1. Kathy Reich’s
Fatal Voyage
RETOLD THROUGH POWERPOINT
DE GUZMAN, MIA MILAGROS.T
II-17 BSE ENGLISH

2. Published 2001
By Pocket Star
Books
New York, USA
w/ 33 chapters

3. About Kathy (as seen on kathyreichs.com)
 Kathy Reichs’s first novel Déjà
Dead catapulted her to fame when
it became a New York Times
bestseller and won the 1997 Ellis
Award for Best First Novel.
 Temperance Brennan novels
 in addition to Virals and Seizure,
two young adult fiction novels
following the adventures of
Temperance Brennan’s niece.
 Dr. Reichs is also a producer of the
hit Fox TV series, Bones, which is
based on her work and her novels.

6. About Kathy
 Dr. Reichs has travelled to Rwanda to testify
at the UN Tribunal on Genocide, and helped
exhume a mass grave in Guatemala.
 As part of her work at JPAC (Formerly CILHI) she
aided in the identification of war dead from World
War II, Korea, and Southeast Asia. Dr. Reichs also
assisted with identifying remains found at
ground zero of the World Trade Center
following the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

7. mass grave in Guatemala + 9/11 attack

8. About Kathy
 Dr. Reichs is one of only eighty-two forensic
anthropologists ever certified by the American
Board of Forensic Anthropology.

9. Imagine this:
 I stared at the woman flying through
the trees. Her head was forward, chin
raised, arms flung backward like the
tiny chrome goddess on the hood of a
Rolls Royce. But the tree lady was
naked, and her body ended at the waist.
Blood-coated leaves and branches
imprisoned her. (chapter 1, first par.,
p.1)

10. Characters:
 Temperance
“Tempe”
Brennan

11. Characters:
Andrew
Ryan
Pete
Lucy Crowe
Larke Tyrell
Byron
McMahon
Simon Midkiff
Prentice
Dashwood
Ralph Stover

12. Setting
 Swain Country, South of Bryson City, North Carolina

13. It all started…
Plane crash
(Air TransSouth 228)
Why did the plane crashed?
Man-made?
Technical?
Who did it?
What went wrong?
Why and
How?

14.  This is where
TEMPERANCE
“TEMPE”
BRENNAN
Member: investigative agency,
DMORT ( Disaster Mortuary
Operational Response Team)
Comes in…

15. Foot (via “coyote delivery”)

16. Abandoned cabin/inn??

17. 3 Questions/Mysteries
What really happened
(plane crash)?
Who owns the foot?
Could the foot come from
the nearby inn?

18. “There’s been a complaint” – Larke Tyrell

Chapter 8, p. 84-85
 Unprofessional behaviour of a nature
sufficient to compromise the
investigation…
 Entering a site w/o authority and
mishandling of evidence
 Trespass

19. Of course…
 Our HEROINE had to do something…
 She had to prove her innocence
INVESIGATE ON HER OWN
Her first lead was the FOOT

20. WHO OWNS THE FOOT?
Crash related/
Missing person incident?
A tragic, savage rundown
by a bunch of a wild
coyotes

21. With the help of Tempe’s
EX-husband, Pete and
Primrose Hobbs, they
were soon unto
something…

22. However, a few days later…
PRIMROSE
HOBBS was
found dead at
Riverbank inn
A black volvo
almost ran
down Tempe
her house was
raided
-bulglars?
-???

23. She became more anxious and curious…
 Severed foot? Native-American?
Male?
 Who was out to get her?
 Who owned the abandoned
cabin/courtyard house?
 Does it have a relation with the
plane crash?

24. As she went on with her little
adventure, she came across
accounts of more death and
was also putting herself in the
face of danger…

25. Now let’s start answering some of the questions…
Who owns the cabin???
H&F
investment Group, LLP
April 10, 1949
Under the name of Prentice
Dashwood

26.  Who owns the foot???

Primary suspects are…
 Daniel Wahnetah
 George Adair
 Jeremiah Mitchell
 A random passenger from Air TRansSouth 228
 Let’s
see the description suggested by findings…
Elderly male. Native-Am ancestry. Height five foot six.
Dead last summer. Found near Arthur/H&F property.
TransSouth passenger? Probably.

27.  What’s up with the cabin???
 Diary
of Martin Patrick Veckhoff sent by his wife,
Marion Louise Willoughby Veckhoff

Code names:
 Omega
 Ilus
 Khaffre
 Chac
 Itzmana
- they went to the cabin & found…

28. A basement with…

29. Four (4) chambers…

30. A sort of altar with images depicted on the walls…

31. And corpses and body parts…

32.  Why did AirTransSouth 228 crashed? How?
“
Eighty-eight people were dead because
one man was preoccupied about losing his
seat.”
Walter Lindenbaum

33. Walter Lindenbaum
He’s a pipe
smoker…
AND he’s
also the
reason why
the plane
crashed…

34. How?
First
ignition –
Pipe
smoke left
in his
duffel
Second
ignition –
Electrical
+ fuel leak

35. Back to the cabin issue…
Cannibalism
Took place in the basement of
the courtyard house they found
near the crash site…

36. It was a sort of cult…
 The Main
characters of the
story exchanged a
few stories on the
matter like that of
Pope Innocent III
(1215 A.D.)

37.  The words hoc est corpus meum were to be taken
literally… at Mass, the bread and wine are exchanged
into the body and blood of Christ.
 Innocent decreed that the act isn’t SYMBOLIC, it’s
REAL… [and] defined the most sacred ceremonial
act of Christianity as true God-eating.

Hostia – Latin, sacrificial victim

38. Let’s interrupt this and get back to Ms. Tempe…
 Who (by this time in the story) is kidnapped and
brought to the Riverbank inn after receiving a
mysterious fax…
By who?
Ralph Stover

39. Mysterious fax…
 On page 3777
 Ilus – Henry Arlen Preston – 1943
 Khaffre – Sheldon Brdie – 1949
 Omega – A.A. Birkby – 1959
 Normer – Martin Patrick Veckhoff
 Sinuhe – C.A. Birkby
 Itzmana – John Morgan - 1972
 Arrigatore F.L. Warren
 Rho – William Glemi Shermann – 1979
 Chac – John Franklin Battle
 Ometeotl – Parker Davenport

40. Luckily…
Our HEROINE didn’t sustain
any serious injury and soon
found out the whole truth…

41. Meet the Hell Fire Club…

42. H&F – Hell Fire
Flourished in the 18th C
in England and Ireland
Sir Francis Dashwood
Had a healthy
skepticism for religion

43. According to Simon Midkiff…
 “It started out as frivolous blasphemy… that eating the
dead negated the finality of death.”
 “A bloody accident. A young man showed up at the
lodge one summer. God knows what he was doing way
out there. There was a lot of drinking, a fight, the boy
was killed. Prentice (Dashwood) proposed that
everyone-“… “Prentice cut slivers of muscle from the
boy’s thigh and required everyone to partake… it was a
pact. Each was a participant and equally guilty. No one
would talk about the boy’s death.”
Simon Midkiff (p. 412-413)

45. Answers to the question… (again)
 WHO OWNS THE FOOT?
 Jeremiah Mitchell
 Why did AirTransSouth 228 crashed? How?
 Pipe smoke started the fire + electrical failure
 What’s up with the cabin? Who owns it?
 It was Hell Fire’s (H&F Investment Group, LLP) property,
where they performed cult rituals.
 Who was out to get her?
 Ralph Stover, because Tempe knew too much and because
he wanted to get in the “inner circle” of H&F.

46. Thanks for listening… (and not listening)