Players the wormwood trilogyOnce I hear the clatter of chips I almost go into convulsions," said Dostoyevsky, while Anatole France wrote, "The gambler is driven by the fascination of danger at the bottom of all great passions." The characters the reader meets in Players chess grand masters, poolroom hustlers, or street hardened practitioners of the short con are all alike propelled by the ecstasy of risk. "The stake is money," France wrote, "in other words, immediate, infinite
are pursued by hostile Chinese agents
transporting tale of adventure
painting a vivid portrait of wartime London
When Mickey learns that the victim was his own former client
Her aunt Belle may take you to see her bellowing pet alligator
to the site of Malala's attack
several of which involved Cemetery Hill
his grief begins to manifest itself in bizarre and horrifying ways
Él está esperando
Rapp has written an uproarious and affecting novel about what we do and where we go when our lives have crumbled around us
In Baseball Cop
his death attracts no sympathy
