die for

"When you are lying to people who will die for you and you know that you will die for them - that bond is very close, and it is a very difficult and painful thing to lie about your whole existence."

References to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby,” Joan Didion’s “Play It as It Lays” and other classics lend literary resonance to Drysdale’s warped tale of fame and revenge that manages to deliver some real surprises as it answers the question posed by Zoe’s stalker: “R U willing to die for him?”

Dizon: About two years ago, one of my friends showed me a few songs — some of the mainstream ones like “Die For You” and “Blinding Lights.”

But while the regime struggled with unwilling conscripts, it could always find Syrians who were prepared to fight and die for it, even at the height of the war after 2011, when rebels controlled much of Damascus outside the city centre and the road to Beirut.

It’s three years later, and he has dedicated his now-considerable fortune to finding the mysterious island on which he watched so many people die for the amusement of the games’ patrons.