The day Keith decides to cheat on Nanda, his wife of five years, he meets Yuni, a laptop-toting teenage girl who leads him to a mysterious woman who calls herself V. Follow Keith from his seductive adventures into a bizarre underworld where he inexplicably finds himself breaking up a powerful crime ring. . . .
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In 1989 the Soviet Union officially fell and once the prestigious Soviet athletic programs began selling their players to the highest bidders. Martin Ostrowski is a hockey player, and also Polish. He never belonged in Russia in the first place and now that Russia offers him no future and Poland offers him no past, if he wants to continue to . . .
Khann of Mann is a fictional account of an uncompromising Wall Street investment banker and the human interest storyline as he wrestles with life, laws and love on a global scale. The novel is less about Wall Street, rather man’s pursuit of his desires and the consequences those pursuits create. Christopher Khann is a self-taught genius who can resist everything . . .
In the distant post-apocalyptic future after what most of us would consider to be the end of the world, people begin losing hope. With a power-hungry government hell-bent on creating the perfect utopia, you’ll venture through a world filled with genocide, torture, ruthless spies and double agents, and a resistance movement aimed at saving those targeted by the government for . . .
This is the story of Karen Kanast, a single, thirty-something owner of The Dusty Rose Cafe. The entries you have read are the on-going chronicles of her life. . . .
All over the world, Knights are appearing. They have swords. They ride horses. They wear shining armour. They’re causing trouble. Nobody knows where they came from or why they’re here—even the Knights themselves are pretty vague on the matter. However, they’re not about to let that get in the way of their crusading. They have a Law to uphold. . . .
By day, she works at a bookstore . . . but at night, she hunts demons with her friends. This is a story about a young girl fighting to discover her purpose in life, and to understand what true strength is. . . .
Vignettes which blur the distinction between what is most definitely fiction and what is less convincingly false. . . .
As the curse of Talia is passed down through the generations, Reza becomes the most recent recipient. She is gifted with the ability to bless friends and family and to curse her enemies with a touch, but this gift comes with a heavy price. Every night she dreams of her death-a horrible fate she can not prevent. When the . . .
Serial about the members of a writing club in England. Stephen King is an aspiring novelist who joins his local writing club only to find it run by a bunch of pensioners who have no intention of bringing the club into the 21st century. Follow Stephen as he attempts to bring much needed change to the club while the . . .
“No Where” is a story about a man and his son. It is a story about what that man is willing to do to protect his boy, no matter the cost. He will give up his security, his identity, his life. And ultimately, it is a story about redemption, about family, about fighting for yourself, about rising to the challenge . . .
From the same universe as Dead Boyfriend, Howl is the story of hunter Eric St. John, a straight guy who suddenly finds himself with an unexpected, yet undeniable attraction to a mysterious man named Adam. Eric can’t explain why it seems impossible to resist his body’s impulse to submit so completely to the other man. But he’s beginning to . . .
Eva thought she could outrun the plagues, but she was wrong. The bio-hackers that ripped the world raw are targeting her hometown of Prague, and this time there may be no escaping it. Now, hunted by police who think she’s a hacker herself, Eva must brave the rotting city streets to find her mother before it’s too late. But . . .
I had high hopes when I looked at the front page of Spy Like Me. The layout was clean, with a page of all the characters, complete with pictures of pretty celebrities. That’s always fun. I did miss navigation links to go onwards to the next episode, but that’s easily fixed.
I’ve recently been reading John Cheever’s short stories, and there’s a hint of Cheever’s technique here – summing up people’s characters very quickly, plunging us into the middle of their dramas, and sometimes guiding us very rapidly through events which cover several years. The rapidity of the dialogue and action can be quite exhilarating at times. There’s also that sense [more . . .]