the dancer AND the devil
stalin, pavlova, and THE ROAD TO THE GREAT PANDEMIC
by
JOHN E. O’NEILL &
SARAH C. WYNNE
Released April 26, 2022
“God is on your side? Is he a conservative?
The Devil is on my side, he’s a good communist.”
— Joseph Stalin
china played with fire and the world is burning.
Communism must kill what it cannot control. So for a century, it has killed artists, writers, musicians, and even dancers. It kills them secretly, using bioweapons and poison to escape accountability. Among its victims was Anna Pavlova, history’s greatest dancer, who was said to have God-given wings and feet that never touched the ground. But she defied Stalin, and for that she had to die. Her sudden death in Paris in 1931 was a mystery until now.
The Dancer and the Devil tracks a century of Soviet and then Communist Chinese poisons and bioweapons through their development and intentional use on talented artists like Pavlova, Maxim Gorky, Raoul Wallenberg and Alexis Navalny. It continues to document many leaks of bioweapons in Saratov, Russia in 1939 and Soviet Yekaterinburg in 1979 to the recent concealed leak of the fearsome, manufactured bioweapon Covid-19 from the military lab in Wuhan, China.
This book is more than a history of these exiled Russian artists and their persecution by Stalin. It is the examination of historical and current mysteries with the tools of the detective and an attorney’s eye for evidence that seals guilt.
about John
John O’Neill is the author of New York Times Number One best seller Unfit for Command and (with Sarah Caton Wynne) The Fisherman’s Tomb, an Amazon Number Three best seller. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1967 and, after decorated service in Vietnam, finished as the top graduate of The University of Texas School of Law. Following a clerkship with Chief Justice William Rehnquist at the United States Supreme Court, John tried successfully several hundred cases and arbitrations, including representation for the People’s Republic of China in their first U.S. litigation. He declined any further representation of the PRC after the massacre at Tiananmen Square and the death/disappearance of many innocent Chinese people. John has repeatedly been selected into Best Lawyers® and appeared in several hundred television and radio shows on CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX, Fox Business, and MSNBC. He has appeared on the Laura Ingraham, Joe Scarborough and Allen Colmes, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, and Chris Matthews shows. John is a kidney donor, survivor of four separate types of cancer and proud father, husband and grandfather.
about Sarah
Sarah Caton Wynne co-authored The Fisherman’s Tomb, currently being made into a feature film, and River Royals Master the Mississippi, winner of a Mom’s Choice Award®. She graduated from The University of Texas with both a law degree and undergraduate business degree with high honors. After practicing as a litigator with an international law firm, Sarah embarked on a second career as an artist in Houston, where she lives with her husband and two children.
