After a second full face transplant Matthias Callaghan eases into a different life together with his new girlfriend Samantha. Not until too late does he realise that the Metropolitan police, the Russian Mafia's legal adviser, a gangster boss named Flint and a group of swindled octogenarian ladies continue their attempts to confront the person they believe he is. The sudden reappearance of his ex-wife makes his life trickier still. Then, when his former business partner is released from prison, Callaghan is sued for millions.
Hard pressed from all sides, Callaghan's solution to his...
After a second full face transplant Matthias Callaghan eases into a different life together with his new girlfriend Samantha. Not until too late do...
When he's taken in for questioning by the police, Matthias Callaghan is faced with two options: to maintain the identity he has been obliged to adopt or to reveal his real one. For different reasons, in either case he risks going to prison and losing a fortune.
Callaghan realises that he must flee Europe and decides to start a new life in Australia. After selling off everything he owns, he travels to USA to shake off any pursuers. Unknown to him, he's nevertheless followed by an assassin. After the assassin catches up with him at a desert hotel, Callaghan understands that he has to...
When he's taken in for questioning by the police, Matthias Callaghan is faced with two options: to maintain the identity he has been obliged to ado...
Chased across the world by police and criminals alike, Matthias Callaghan eludes them all by hiding in Australia. With his girlfriend Samantha, he starts a new life in the belief that he hasn't left traces behind allowing Interpol, the Russian Mafia and a London gangster named Flint to find him. Six months later he finds out that he's wrong.
Once again on the run, he and Samantha escapes to a distant island where they try to come to grips with Callaghan's quandary. Due to the greed and mistakes of others, he has lost his face, his identity and his former privileged life. Although the...
Chased across the world by police and criminals alike, Matthias Callaghan eludes them all by hiding in Australia. With his girlfriend Samantha, he ...
When published in 1971, Paul Crimson's war novel Velvet Nights became an instant success. Coaxed by his editor to write a follow-up, Crimson eventually accepted to hibernate in a New England fishing town to cure his writer's block. Prodded by commercial interests, he began writing his second novel with no idea how it would end. By fusing keen observations of people in tranquil Harbor with notes from his editor and his soldiering past in Vietnam, he launched The Ship - a terrifying scenario of snowstorms, survival and soul searching. Then Crimson's unstableness provoked events to spin out of...
When published in 1971, Paul Crimson's war novel Velvet Nights became an instant success. Coaxed by his editor to write a follow-up, Crimson eventuall...
What's it going to be - the dice or the gauntlet? If you're game, here are thirteen thought-provoking short stories to challenge you. Rumours of a mad captain's ship stranded in the desert attract men from around the world, each armed with a different theory. Two generals play Russian roulette that's bound to have a checkmate ending. And as for the game of chess, you're in for several surprises as its key moments throughout history are revealed. A bobby treads the London streets where the cobblestones rhyme. An Arabian princess will tell you the story behind her dead lover's eyes. The...
What's it going to be - the dice or the gauntlet? If you're game, here are thirteen thought-provoking short stories to challenge you. Rumours of a mad...
In this a-maze-ing collection you will lose yourself in nine original and entertaining short stories about the traps and benefits of taking advantage. Join the frantic train ride of a rock 'n' roll star and the legacy in its wake. Listen to the haunting sounds from the tomb of a cool club-land saxophone player. Learn the false reasons for the murderous example taught by a Mafia boss in Rome. Share the pragmatic gunpoint view of an Afghan suitor made cynical by war. Suffer through a thousand and one gourmet dinners endured under the threat of decapitation. Enter a killing game making it into...
In this a-maze-ing collection you will lose yourself in nine original and entertaining short stories about the traps and benefits of taking advantage....
Not everything is what it seems - a tombstone doesn't necessarily mean the end of a person's life. The remarkable short stories included in this book narrate eleven extraordinary cases with the common theme that life challenges death. So, prepare yourself for the meeting with a Tibetan monk as he contemplates his way out of a Chinese prison, a Mexican mythomaniac's idea of true beauty, and the secret caller of a Russian Duchess. You will encounter a ruthless German concentration camp commander, a shipwreck survivor in the Indian Ocean, and a spy novel writer with emerald eyes. You will be...
Not everything is what it seems - a tombstone doesn't necessarily mean the end of a person's life. The remarkable short stories included in this book ...
En 1982 dos viajeros ingenuos llegaron a Paraguay para conocer el pais como turistas. Por una pregunta trivial, la pareja fue detenida por la policia politica bajo la sospecha de ser terroristas. Incomunicados, estuvieron obligados de quedarse frente a una camara de tortura, hasta lograr escaparse por un descuido de los oficiales. Siete anos mas tarde, el dictador Alfredo Stroessner fue derrocado mediante un golpe de estado. Sin embargo, la historia no terminaria sino hasta un cuarto de siglo despues del fin de la dictadura. Fue cuando el autor logro establecer contacto con quien desenterro...
En 1982 dos viajeros ingenuos llegaron a Paraguay para conocer el pais como turistas. Por una pregunta trivial, la pareja fue detenida por la policia ...
