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conversations.value: Give me a plot for a book about Natalie, Willi, Island entitled Carrion Comfort.. End with the sentence '\nThe book ends with Melanie comfortable and unchallenged in her abilities in France, keeping tabs on control of officers of a nuclear submarine.'.
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conversations.value: Carrion Comfort: The story begins in 1942, with a man named Saul Laski who fears for his life while at the Chełmno extermination camp in Poland.\nHe is determined to resist being taken away in the night but something supernatural compels him to obey the orders of the Schutzstaffel.\nIt continues in 1980 with a meeting of Melanie, Nina, and Willi in Charleston, South Carolina.\nThey discuss a game that involves using an innate power they have, which they call an Ability, to take remote control of people simply through thought and cause them to do anything.\nWhen these people are controlled to murder, it imparts those with the Ability to look and feel younger and more alive.\nAs each member of the group presents their recent exploits, such as the murder of John Lennon, a tension and unease between them is revealed as a kind of truce.\nWhen Willi\'s plane explodes the next day, Melanie suspects Nina and then a fight ensues, with both characters using innocent bystanders as soldiers and victims in a bizarre series of brutal murders involving children, old men, and security guards until Nina is shot in the head and dies.\nThere is a police and FBI investigation into a bizarre series of seemingly unconnected murders that span down a street on a single night as Sheriff Gentry and FBI Agent Haines interview a visiting psychologist named Saul Laski.\nSaul is famous for his theories about seemingly strange and impossible violence, but is as stumped as the sheriff.\nLater, Saul is compelled to break into the house where the murders started to investigate, and meets Natalie; who has come for the same reason; to find out why her father, a photographer used and murdered in the battle, has died so bizarrely.\nAfter realizing they are both looking for answers, Saul reveals to Natalie that he has a past with supernatural violence, having been used by someone with the Ability in Chełmno long ago, ever since looking to find the SS Officer, an Oberst, who controlled him in a perverse series of ways, including as a living pawn in a life-size game of chess with a Nazi General where each piece removed from the board was executed.\nAs the chess game ended, Saul continued to be used to hunt down the Nazi General, who apparently had a weaker Ability than the Oberst.\nSaul is controlled to kill the General.\nRegaining his willpower for a moment in an explosion, he flees into the forest and survives the rest of the holocaust amongst Partisan Polish and later Partisan Jewish forces before finding solace in Zionist Israel.\nThis story is shared with sheriff Gentry later.\nSheriff Gentry, now the only one investigating the murders as the FBI has shown no interest, realizes he is being followed.\nEventually he confronts his follower, who instead of speaking immediately attacks Gentry and is killed in the ensuing struggle.\nThere is no record of the person existing in US Government files, which leads Gentry to begin to believe Saul\'s incredible story.\nIt is revealed that the reason the FBI was quick to stop investigating is that it is in part controlled by elements of the \'Island Club,\' a Cabal of influential people with The Ability in the USA, such as Charles Colbern of the FBI and Special Agent Haines, as well as billionaire Arnold Barent, Senatorial aide Nieman Trask, an influential Televangelist, and others.\nThey discuss that Ayatollah Khomeini has a weak ability and thought he was the only one, and thus saw himself as godlike.\nThey also discuss that they are manipulating the current US election by way of the Iran Hostage Crisis to ensure Ronald Reagan\'s election.\nWilli kills a member of the club through long-distance use of a controlled surrogate to get their attention, asking to be a part of the games.\nMeanwhile, Melanie flees, accessing hidden identities and bank accounts throughout the US, and prepares to hide using identities and money she has waiting in France.\nAt the Atlanta Airport, she is terrified by a courtesy phone call when she hears Nina\'s voice, convincing her that somehow Nina has cheated death, perhaps with a stronger Ability than previously known.\nMelanie uses people in a blind panic and ends up in Germantown, Philadelphia.\nShe meets and conditions a new pawn, a hitchhiking thug called Vincent, into a mute killer.\nSaul, after years of working with various groups to track down the Oberst, believes he has found him—a man named Willi Borden.\nSaul hires Private detectives to track Willi, but they either disappear in Los Angeles or die.\nSaul reaches out to family members working in the Mossad for help in the same search for Willi Borden.\nThis leads to his nephew Aaron, as well as Aaron\'s wife and children, to be killed by agents of the Island Club.\nMelanie begins setting up a new series of controlled helpers and a new life in Philadelphia.\nVerbally harassed by gang members, she begins sending Vincent to brutally butcher and impale the heads of gang members as a warning, which sparks further violence in the community but also draws the attention of both Saul\'s group and the Island Club.\nTony Harod, a vile Hollywood producer who only uses his Ability to subjugate and rape women, has been offered a membership in the Island Club if he agrees to help hunt down Willi and Melanie.\nHe arrives in Philadelphia as all other characters arrive for a variety of reasons, the Island Club using the CIA and FBI to cordon off Germantown, Philadelphia from any outside intervention, including police and firefighters.\nAs Natalie and Gentry investigate, the Island Club uses a bus full of people to attack them—and they flee to the safety of the gang since no authorities arrive to help.\nA huge firefight erupts as Natalie and Gentry marshall the gang forces against the "voodoo woman" who killed their comrades against those she controls, while the FBI adds to the violence in an attempt to flush out either Willi or Melanie, as well as kill Gentry and Natalie for knowing too much.\nGentry and Natalie get to the house and almost to Melanie, but Vincent attacks, killing Gentry, as Natalie kills Vincent.\nMelanie has been driven more insane by the thought of Nina being alive, and sees the violence erupting around her through her lens of racism as a bad northern neighborhood gone worse.\nMelanie escapes, controlling one old woman in a car.\nShe is followed by Charles Colbern of the Island Club in a helicopter with a rifle.\nThe controlled old woman is shot.\nMelanie manages to destroy the helicopter and Colbern through use of the old woman who appears dead but can be pushed beyond human limits by her Ability, and escapes to a park where she meets and takes over a family.\nSaul and Natalie escape wounded but alive, heal, and get help from the Mossad revealing some but not all information about the Island Club.\nThey manage to get supplies for a complicated trap for Tony Harod.\nThey kidnap him in Los Angeles and take him to a secret interrogation room operated by the Mossad in an abandoned barn east of San Juan Capistrano, California off the Ortega Highway.\nThere Tony Harod is interrogated under drugs to find out as much as possible about the Island Club and the Ability in general—getting info from EEG readouts as Tony tries in vain to control Natalie to escape.\nThe EEG reveals information about a theta rhythm signature that occurs when people with the Ability attempt to control others.\nHarod believes this interrogation about the Island Club is the work of Willi, using Saul and Natalie, and he is released, being told to follow Willi\'s instructions, upon penalty of death, through his supposed pawns (Saul and Natalie).\nSaul realizes as they are packing up that he is being pursued by FBI Agent Haines, and sets the barn on fire and flees with Natalie.\nThey eventually kill Haines just outside Lake Elsinore, CA and escape, lost in a stolen car along fire service roads until ending up in Fallbrook, California.\nThe Island Club "games" begin on a private island of Arnold Barent.\nWilli has apparently been working with the televangelist to vote to take the Island Club "games" global.\nThis means they will not simply control a few people on the private island to see who is the most powerful, but control leaders of nations with nuclear results.\nWilli has shown his power earlier by using one of two people stationed in the control room at an Air Force missile silo in Meriden, Wyoming to demonstrate his ability to instigate United States-USSR nuclear war.\nSaul and Natalie plan to infiltrate the island.\nSaul will pose as one of the runaways used as human pawns in the island games, being brought there by Tony Harod as instructed after his interrogation.\nNatalie, back in Charleston, has found Melanie and convinced Melanie that Natalie is an agent of Nina warning her of Willi\'s power (his death on the plane was faked) and the Island Club\'s growing power.\nThe story\'s action climaxes at the private island.\nSaul becomes a willing pawn in the "game," having trained himself with self-hypnosis for months to memorize as many details as possible of the lives of death camp victims and survivors of the holocaust so that when Willi attempts to control him, the memories of others will confuse Willi in a way that will gain Saul a few seconds to attack and kill the old man.\nWilli takes over the "use and hunt" aspect of the "game" and suggests taking the game global—which he and the televangelist support, and Barent and Kepler don\'t.\nHarod, being technically a full voting member of the club, abstains; caring less about old ambitions and more about surviving.\nThe night quickly becomes a contest between those with superior Ability: Willi and Barent.\nThey agree to play a living chess game for the fate of the "games" to come.\nIf Willi wins, the game becomes global in lethality.\nIf Barent wins, its barbarism is contained to the island.\nSaul gets his chance and kills Willi, who won the chess game.\nAs Barent leaves, he is killed by Melanie\'s use of surrogates, coerced by Natalie back in Charleston.\nThe book ends with Natalie going that same night on a suicide mission to finally kill Melanie and her collection of family, nurse, and doctor pawns.\nShe barely succeeds, but it is revealed she only killed someone Melanie made to look like a body double through surgery and obfuscation.\nThe book ends with Melanie comfortable and unchallenged in her abilities in France, keeping tabs on control of officers of a nuclear submarine.
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conversations.value: Give me the first two paragraphs for this book.
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conversations.value: Carrion Comfort
  Natalie sat on the mattress in the corner and fought the urge to cry. She went through all of the possibilities and permutations in her mind.
  And what about Anthony Harod? Natalie tasted bile when she thought about that lizard-eyed little son of a bitch. The memory of the fear and hatred of women she had sensed during those few minutes under his control made her gorge rise. She wished that she had kicked his ugly face in when she had had the chance.
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conversations.value: Give me another paragraph.
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conversations.value: Natalie jerked awake, her heart pounding. They were on the Interstate. It seemed light outside. "Is it dawn yet?" she asked.
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conversations.value: Give me the last five paragraphs.
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conversations.value: But on other days—cold dark days such as this when the clouds move in from the north—I remember the silent shape of a submarine moving through the dark waters of the bay, and I wonder whether my self-imposed abstinence has been for nothing. On days like this I wonder if such a gigantic, final Feeding might not make me younger after all. As Willi used to say when proposing some mischievous little prank of his: What do I have to lose?
  It is supposed to be warmer tomorrow. I may be happier then. But I am chilled and somewhat melancholy today. I am all alone with no one to play with.
  Arleen Tennis, typist extraordinaire, for those hot summer days spent dealing with the next-to-last versions of the revised revisions.
  Claudia Logerquist, for patiently reminding me that umlauts and diacritics shouldn't be sprinkled randomly, like salt.
  Kathy Sherman, who enthusiastically entered into artistic collaboration on short notice and even shorter wages.