Sam Spaulding is a tough, violent former war photographer with a Pulitzer Prize and a dead brother Henry who at one time ran one of the ugliest gangs in Los Angeles. Sam finds out he has Stage III intestinal cancer and decides to go out spitting in the face of death. But he reckons without his wife Lydia, who takes on her husband's fatalism with every ruthless weapon at her disposal. The skeletons in Sam's closet hardly help, when they come back to haunt him in the foul-mouthed ex-junkie Rudy Spavik and his angry girlfriend Sheri Ballin. From Los Angeles to the Mexican Baja, this unlikely...

What do Confucius, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Descartes, Siddhartha, Hobbes, and Judge Roy Bean have in common? Obviously not much. But meet Mike Miller, Messenger Extraordinaire, the man with the tightest lips in America. After dropping $40,000 on a philosophy degree and bagging three years worth of groceries, Mike finally found a use for all those seers. Twenty-eight years ago he let none other than John Gotti, the Teflon Don, set him up in the messenger business. Discretion required Mike to alias his clients after someone. While you're at it, say hello to Tuesday Miller, Texan beauty queen,...

Mama never did bake him cookies. But somewhere along the way the beautiful courier Mathilde Durand taught her son Alec to cover his tracks and flee from trouble. Handy skills for a Hollywood B-movie producer who responds to his partner's double-cross by stealing their $9,999,900 in seed money. Especially when the Bulgarian mobster who provided the funds comes looking for him. And when the Bulgarian's masters in the Consortium lose patience and start murdering everyone involved.

Mac Macleod always assumed that the grandiose dreams he fulfilled would define his life, that he would live on past his time. Not on a Napoleonic scale, but in terms of companies and factories built, workers employed, generations educated, all that wonderful-sounding stuff. But now he's not so sure. And all it takes to turn his world upside down is a kidnapped 15-year-old daughter and a ridiculous princessly ransom of $200.

Three years later Mike and Tuesday are at it again--except as far as Tuesday's concerned, they're not at anything together. She's ditched her husband and moved on to national network TV. When her reporter nose gets her in trouble-again -Mike grumbles off to the rescue. And finds himself caught in a loony triangle between meddling saints, murderous mobsters, and his alleged ex-girlfriend Frankie, the kindest, sweetest killer-for-hire on the planet.

All George du Plessis wants to do is daydream about his late wife Izzie and not make a hash of raising their two beautiful daughters, Gisela and Adelaide. Yet for that plan to work, George would need a far less violent and convoluted family history. One thing George does know-he'll be damned if the sins of the European fathers and mothers will be visited upon these American children. And so he might...