Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Satire

The thing about the truth is; it doesn't get out much...

Colin Jekyll is an 'Events Manager'. And a liar. Colin's real name is Frank Canon, and his real job title is 'Reality Enforcer'. And the lies don't stop there; they only get bigger.

Canon works for the Agency, protecting the status quo. A multilingual lone wolf with an unreliable history and a fear of flying, Canon covers up continuity errors; those inexplicable events most other people call 'miracles'. He adjusts outbreaks of clairvoyance and drunken weather, weeping statues and spontaneous dancing plagues...

The most mysterious disappearance of the 20th century is solved as New York Supreme Court Justice Joseph Crater goes undercover for the FBI in this hilarious satire set in mid-century America, with an eccentric cast of characters including Amelia Earhart, J. Edgar Hoover, Orson Welles, German spies, Japanese submarines, space-folding transvestites, Mormon mafia, and recipe-obsessed nuns, exposing a galactic conspiracy of aliens intent on flooding the Earth through global warming.

Brooke Sunter's life is collapsing around her. Until recently a teller at the local credit union, a botched robbery sees her taken hostage, beaten, shot, and finally mistaken for the criminal.

Unemployed and thrown out of her apartment, Brooke winds up sleeping on the couch of her neighbors Patty and Ben-an arrangement that doesn't sit well with the jealous Patty.

Trying to get back on her feet, Brooke takes a job at the local nutrition shop, run by Mike Gwenlynski. Mike has a reputation for being the town's go-to guy for nutritional advice. Things seem to calm down for...

Felix Hart, a tragic orphan, is expelled from school, cast onto the British high street, and forced to make his way in the cut-throat world of wine retailing. Thanks to a positive mental attitude, he is soon forging a promising career, his sensual adventures taking him to the vineyards of Italy, South Africa, Bulgaria and Kent. His path to the summit is littered with obstacles, however. Petty office politics, psychotic managers and the British Board of Wine & Liquor prove challenging enough. But when Felix negotiates the world's biggest Asti Spumante deal, he bites off more than he can...