The Millionaires' Death Club Book

[ My favorite character in the book was Zara, the Super Woman. The diabolical Zara is the ultimate absent presence in the story. She's there even when she's gone. She's always on the minds of the two Hollywood superstars. She's always endlessly ricocheting off the corridors of Sophie's mind. Her mind is tormented by Zara's absence.

Zara is a metaphor for the soul that animates the body, the invisible, indivisible, indestructible life force that drives all the characters together just as the soul controls the body. She is in a way, the "Queen" soul, the agent of the dialectic that drives evolution so to speak, whose perfect beauty and tantalizing seduction bends reality to her will. This is shown numerous times in the book as the Hollywood superstars are helpless and hopeless to resist her charisma, her electrifying presence that shocks and compels everyone to follow her, to obey her.

The sexual metaphors in the story are more than they seem to eye. Every high has its low, and the concept of the "divine suicide" shows how the cyclical process of the universe oscillates between perfection and imperfection. The ending really makes you think about things, about the nature of perfection and how only lasts one instant before it's all gone.

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