The Final Testimony of Raphael Ignatius Phoenix

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‘My name is Raphael Ignatius Phoenix and I am a hundred years old – or will be in ten days’ time, when I kill myself…’ Raphael Ignatius Phoenix has had enough. Born at the beginning of the 20th century, he is determined to take his own life as the old millennium ends and the new one begins. But before he ends it all, he wants to put the record straight, and that includes making sense of his own long life. He decides to write it all down and, eschewing the more usual method of pen and paper, begins to record his story on the walls of the isolated castle that is his final home. Raphael remembers the multitude of experiences, the myriad encounters and, of course, the ten murders he committed along the way…