Stephen is a vaguely dissatisfied young man living abroad in London and working as an apprentice to an architecture firm. In need of money he begins to toy with the idea of accepting a loan from three eccentric criminals in exchange for helping them out in an art theft, whose only motive seems to be the bizarre belief of one of the three men, that destroying art is the highest ideological principal attainable by Man.He balks at the absurdity of this idea at first, but after a serie...

The Candidate is a charismatic conman so terrified of failure he is obsessed with attaining success at all costs. The novel opens when he dazzles at an academic interview and subsequently appoints himself. No one calls his bluff because everyone is afraid to admit they missed the appointment meeting that never occurred.He rapidly rises through the ranks using his charm and a variety of scams until he becomes president of the entire university and is eventually convinced by his supp...

Jean is a young aspiring "American in Paris" whose entire existence is turned on its head when he deserts his mandatory military service post in Algeria to be with his lover Jillian only to have her vanish mysteriously just days later.Refusing to believe she is dead, he embarks on a life-altering quest through Paris and rural France, convinced that the secret of her disappearance lies in the works of French surrealist poet and diagnosed schizophrenic Antonin Artaud, while also conf...

Jan Markowicz is a young American bomb maker and aspiring artist trying to escape from his involvement with a secular terrorist organization dedicated to the destruction of American corporate power and globalization. He backs out of a Heathrow bombing plot when the photo of a mysterious woman awakens him to the futility of violence as a means of social change.He takes refuge with a young slacker couple in London, the enigmatic Martin and enchanting Liisi, with whom he quickly devel...

Paul Robertson is a womanizing mercurial fugitive who has assumed the identity of a missing rock photographer after escaping a Mexican prison on a false murder charge. Spurred by his negative experiences in jail to embrace a new existence of lies and duplicity, he arrives in LA and quickly bluffs his way onto the staff of a low-end alternative rock magazine run by iconoclastic British journalist Mark and his wife Vera, immersing himself in a life of rock shows, drugs and women, while alway...

Thurston is an American working as a lecturer in Brighton. His life is thrown into turmoil when his lover mysteriously vanishes just days after his proposal. She eventually returns, only to vanish completely just weeks before the wedding.Seeking explanations from her family and friends he goes on a harrowing journey back to Brighton and her hometown Budapest, where he discovers the shocking truth of her double life, shaking the foundations of his existence and forcing him to recons...

Fresh out of an unsatisfying relationship with a younger woman John Martin, New York advertising executive, is suddenly possessed by a strange and irresistible desire to cross the globe to Budapest and strike up a new friendship with his ex-wife, with whom he hasn't spoken in years.Plunged into the mysterious world of Budapest just after the collapse of the Iron Curtain, he falls in love with a waitress while also inadvertently reawakening and expanding intimacy with his ex-wife. H...

John Anderson is an American journalist in Yugoslavia covering the Croatian War of Independence when he discovers just a few days before a Serbian invasion that his musician wife Anna had just ended a yearlong affair. He forgives her at first as they desperately plan their escape across a mountain and through a war zone, towards the safety of the Hungarian border.Only a few days later his distrust re-emerges when they meet a soldier who appears to flirt, and then disappear with her...

A YouTube men's fragrance and fashion influencer wanders across an unfamiliar city to meet his estranged daughter on the 'day of his eternal damnation'.On his way, he encounters a host of unsettling experiences and strange characters including 'the cloud lady' an elderly woman with dementia, 'the blocker in-chief' a man whose sole purpose seems to be impeding crowds, 'the conductor' a suburban family man with a mysterious double life, and an old friend––who no longer recognizes him...

Laura Chain lost her virginity on New Years Eve 1999 and was christened The First Woman of the Twenty-First Century by her now deceased punk rock singer boyfriend Johnny Enzyme. In her early-thirties and living in New York, she feels the magic of her youth fading away, until she meets John Halo, a mysterious British agent who gives her a chance to discover her life's true meaning.The story begins when Halo asks if she would use her seductive skills to help investigate Gregory Walde...

Jimmy is an apiring DJ and electronic music producer who becomes involved in a life-altering love triangle with two sisters in New York as he is trying to build his recording career. He tries to put his personal life behind him when he moves to London to take on the European club circuit. Eventually he settles down with his lover and fellow DJ but soon realises that success was not all he hoped for. Unable to escape his memories of the two sisters or resurect what he once felt for them, he...

Jackie is an enigmatic youth obsessed with dark Japanese Manga and vintage motorcycles who is repelled by the future life set out for him by adult society. His efforts to seek revenge on his enemies and steal a statue to impress a girl escalate into arson and when his best friend takes all the blame he gets sent away to reform school.The girl's father then falls in love with Jackie's mother and moves in. When he learns of Jackie's designs on his daughter, he forbids Jackie to see h...