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Agent Richard Chance is on a relentless mission to avenge his partner's murder by bringing down master counterfeiter Eric Masters. As Chance delves into the dangerous underworld of Los Angeles, he faces a high-stakes game of cat and mouse where every move could be his last.

Jessica Wood is an aspiring photographer living in London. She’s had her heart broken, and her friends have pieced it back together again. But across the neon lights of Soho, in the smell of alcohol and cigarette smoke, on every night bus, in every song, every time she tries to forget: she remembers him. Now, in a battle between the past and the future, choosing between having a life and making a living, finding her feet or spreading her wings, Jessica must ask herself: who is she really living for?

Bittermanns Kreuzberger Szenen fanden in Harry Rowohlt den perfekten Vorleser, nicht nur, weil er sowieso der beste Vorleser Deutschlands ist, sondern auch den Berliner Dialekt exakt beherrscht, der in solchen Geschichten nicht zu vermeiden ist. Harry Rowohlt hat zudem nicht einfach vorgelesen, sondern als Paganini der Abschweifung aus dem Buch mit seinen Anmerkungen, Anekdoten und Assoziationen große Kunst zum Anhören gemacht.

Imagina por un momento que eres Marcus Cooper. Un extraño elegante te encuentra en un bar. Estás borracho. Hablas mucho. Sin que te des cuenta, él está aprendiendo sobre ti. Tu deseo de dinero y mujeres. Al final de la noche, te hace una propuesta de un millón de dólares para causar un accidente por conducir ebrio. ¿Te suena loco? Tal vez, tal vez no.

I have never murdered, and I have never been murdered, but I have dreamed of both. Alfred C. Martino is the author of three highly acclaimed novels, Perfected By Girls, Over the End Line, and Pinned. Mr. Martino was born and raised in Short Hills, New Jersey, and graduated from Millburn High School. He is a graduate of Duke University and The Marshall Graduate School of Business at the University of Southern California. He currently lives in Jersey City.

"A Desertion" is a short story published in 1900 about a young woman who is suspected by others in the neighborhood of indiscretion that might trouble her father.

Un homme d'affaires en voyage s'installe dans une autre chambre de motel. Celle-ci est exactement comme toutes les autres. Les mêmes rideaux fades. Le même papier peint décoloré. La même odeur de renfermé. Alors que le monde poursuit sa course à l'extérieur de la porte du motel, il évalue sa carrière et sa vie, se demandant: "Où suis-je ?"