Tijdens de bruiloft van zijn zus ontmoet Philip een van de bruidsmeisjes, Senta. Hij voelt zich meteen tot haar aangetrokken en de gevoelens blijken wederzijds. Al snel wordt hun verhouding echter zo intens dat het Philip benauwt. Wanneer Senta vervolgens ook nog eens op gruwelijke wijze bewijst hoeveel ze van hem houdt, vraagt Philip zich af hoe hij zich van haar kan losmaken...
St. Louis, Missouri, is a quietly dying river city until it hires a new police chief: a charismatic young woman from Bombay, India, named S. Jammu. No sooner has Jammu been installed, though, than the city's leading citizens become embroiled in an all-pervasive political conspiracy. A classic of contemporary fiction, The Twenty-Seventh City shows us an ordinary metropolis turned inside out, and the American Dream unraveling into terror and dark comedy.
“In our deserts the makers of deadly perfume have worked hard to provide us with the weapons to defend ourselves and destroy the Zionists should they ever attack us, or their allies, should they, too, dare to attack us.” —Saddam Hussein In the aftermath of the 1990–1991 Gulf War, Mossad agent David Morton has carte blanche to stop terrorist Khalil Raza from releasing a form of anthrax capable of wiping out millions in minutes. A megalomaniac terrorist holds the world hostage, threatening to poison every major city with a deadly virus. He has the means—a lethal poison—and demonstrates its potency by adding a small vial of it to the drinking water in a small South African town, killing all of the inhabitants. With only seven days to meet his demands, the world’s leaders call on David Morton, a brilliant and ruthless Mossad agent. The result is a tense global chase, leading from China to Athens, London, Libya, South Africa, Tel Aviv, and New York, drawing good and evil closer and closer in a battle to the death. Deadly Perfume penetrates the real world of intelligence-gathering to reveal its secret subculture, with its hidden loyalties and agendas. In David Morton, Gordon Thomas has imagined a world so terrifyingly real that it poses the question, Is it imagined at all?
Het verhaal van een kind dat getuige is van de intiemste relaties tussen haar excentrieke stiefouders.
Zedenroman spelend op het Zuidengelse platteland aan het eind van de 18e eeuw.