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V loterii padl více než třísetmilionový jackpot a Shaw McBride a Romeo Zderko mají pocit, že se na ně usmálo štěstí. Ne že by drželi v rukou správný tiket, ale osud je v pravou chvíli zavedl do městečka, ve kterém vítězná rodina přebývá, a v Shawově hlavě se zrodil plán, jak navěky uniknout ubíjejícímu zaměstnání: Uvězní rodinu v jejím vlastním domě a vyhrožuje, že pokud neobdrží polovinu výhry, pustí se Romeo v městečku do zabíjení jejich nejbližších. Na ulici ale houstne dav zvědavců a novinářů, napětí v domě se stupňuje a...

The Boatwrights just won 318 million dollars in the Georgia State lottery. It's going to be the worst day of their lives.
When Shaw McBride and Romeo Zderko pull up at a convenience store off I-95 in Georgia, their only thought is to fix a leaky tire and be on their way again to Florida-away from their dull Ohio tech-support jobs. But this happens to be the store from which a 318,000,000 million dollar Jackpot ticket has just been sold -- and when a pretty clerk accidentally reveals to Shaw the identity of the winning family, he hatches a ferociously audacious scheme: He and Romeo will...

There has never been a hero quite like Romulus Ledbetter, a Juilliard-trained pianist who makes his home in a cave in New York's Inwood Park. There has never been a debut novelist quite like George Dawes Green with his singular gift for marrying malevolence with poetry, tragedy with uproariousness, and madness with lucidity. And there has never been a novel quite like The Caveman's Valentine, a rich, idiosyncratic achievement that is by turns suspenseful, deeply moving, and hilarious. Romulus Ledbetter wasn't always homeless. He once was a devoted husband, father, and musician with a bright...

Annie Laird is Juror 224. A sculptor with a career going nowhere. A single mother struggling to raise a son. A good citizen who has been summoned to what looks like a rountine tour of civic duty. But the trial she is called to serve on is no ordinary trial. It is a mob trial, whose outcome has been meticulously orchestrated by a man of insidious power and deadly precision. A man who lives by the teachings of Lao Tsu...whose magnetism is irresistible...whose mind is as brilliant as it is twisted. He is know to some as the Teacher, and he's set his sights on Annie Laird.
Pulled into the...