Three Faces: What Would You Kill For?
Dive into the depths you never dare show through true crime stories, but not like you've ever seen before.
It's said that everyone wears three masks. One for the world. One for loved ones, and one hidden deep within. The one you never show. The one whispering dark desires, primal fears, and secrets. The truest face of all...
You will discover:
But what if that mask is ripped off? What if you're forced to show the world your hidden depths? Three Faces plunges you into the real-life stories of those who've exposed their forbidden selves. People driven to take another life. By choice or circumstance, their actions force a terrifying question: Would you have done the same?
Across diverse backgrounds and motivations, each story grapples with the same chilling dilemma: Is killing ever truly justified? Can love, duty, or survival ever outweigh the sanctity of life? These aren't fictional tales. They're journeys into the uncomfortable reality of human nature, pushing you to confront your own moral boundaries.
Prepare to be challenged as you explore depths you never dare show. Read Three Faces and face the ultimate question: When the mask cracks, who are you truly willing to become?
Themes & Topics Covered
Femicide
Serial Killing
Honor Killing
Infanticide
State Execution
Domestic Violence
Self Defence
Suicide
Child Soldiers
Terrorism
Abortion
Euthanasia
Vigilante Justice
Justifiable Homicide
Animal Rights
Religion
Racial Violence
Cannibalism
Medicine Murder
Gang Violence
'God's Work'
This book takes you to places you dare not dream about...
Three Faces: Background
On average, around 500,000 people die on the planet every year from acts of intentional violence and homicide. These acts span domestic violence, war, terrorism, infanticide, gang violence, honor killings, and state executions. Many of these deaths pass relatively unnoticed, while some attract attention. A percentage of lives end through armed conflict (war and terrorism), through 'state-sanctioned' means (abortion and execution), and even through culturally 'permissible' acts of domestic homicide (honor killings and infanticide). Some of these deaths we've become seemingly inured to, so we barely acknowledge them, and others we judge abhorrent; it's our religious and cultural context that influences how we view this. Clearly, killing is part of life.
Three Faces: Why Do We Kill?
In the Western world, we proudly support our soldiers as the State sends them off to war where lives will be lost. Yet, at the very same time, people may ostracize and victimize people who perform or undergo legal abortions. Similarly, we publicly decry a brother killing his sister over honor in his home country, yet let the State send a son to jail for euthanizing his terminally ill parent at their request. These are the ugly realities of the world we live in.
The sanctity of life is not as absolute and universal as we'd like to believe, made abundantly clear in the 'Good Book' that states Thou Shall Not Kill alongside some amenable breaches of this golden rule.
Part 3: The Author's Journey
As a former soldier, I've always wondered about the legitimacy of having other people's lives in my hands. So, in 2010, I took a sabbatical to get a human view of societal and institutional violence, by researching controversial subjects spanning domestic homicide, war, euthanasia, abortion, child soldiers, infanticide, state execution, terrorism and honor killings to try and understand why we kill.
Three Faces, the first book of its kind, shares the stories of people who have confronted the biggest moral dilemma possible. At the core of each story are two questions; what would you do in the same situation, and do we ever have a good reason to kill? That's up to you to decide...