Jackie Cogan is a hitman for the New England mob who has been enlisted to find out who pulled the latest heist at a criminal poker ring and "take care of them." A ruthless professional with the efficacy of a businessman and a sharp sense for recognizing other people's weaknesses, Cogan doesn't stop at finding the guilty parties and restoring honor to those who hired him. Lively dialogue, biting humor, and constant tension keep alive the suspense of a plot that unfolds in 1970s-Boston's criminal underworldufull of petty thieves, hired assassins, mobsters, and corrupt law enforcement.

Traces a Communist Chinese family's fifteen-year struggle to honor a grandmother's dying wish to be buried in spite of a national ban of traditional Chinese practices, an effort that pitted family members against one another and risked their capture by authorities.

He was a slumlord and lawyer and nobody's fool - and neither were the tenants who lived in Jerry Fein's rotting buildings. They weren't paying rent - why should they when the rats lived there for free?

In this book, the nomadic narrator of Eduardo Halfon's critically-acclaimed The Polish Boxer returns to travel from Guatemalan cities, villages, coffee plantations, and border towns to a private jazz concert in New York's Harlem, a former German U-Boat base on the French Breton coast, and Israel, where he escapes from his sister's Orthodox Jewish wedding into an erotic adventure with the enigmatic Tamara. His passing encounters are unforgettable; his relationships, problematic. At once a world citizen and a writer who mistrusts the power of language, he is pursued by history's ghosts and unanswerable questions. He is a cartographer of identity on a compelling journey to an uncertain destination. As he draws and redraws his boundaries, he confronts us with the limitations of our own.

A couple are found dead on a desolate beach in a remote town North of Tokyo. The local authorities assume it is a double suicide. But is it? One piece of evidence, at first glance trivial, leads to an excillerating adventure. Inspector Toragay doggedly investigates a case that grows in complexity as the leads point to corruption and deceit at the highest levels.

Surviving the trials and tribulations of the twentieth century by masquerading as a fool, Isaac Jacob Blumenthal grows up in Kolodetz, a small-town near Lvov, as he endures concentration camps, a Siberian gulag, two world wars, and the subsequent rule of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Poland, Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, and the Soviets again.

Ramsay is a man twice born, a man who has returned from the hell of the battle-grave at Passchendaele in World War I decorated with the Victoria Cross and destined to be caught in a no man's land where memory, history, and myth collide. As Ramsay tells his story, it begins to seem that from boyhood, he has exerted a perhaps mystical, perhaps pernicious, influence on those around him.

Sequel to: Levadura de malicia.

Travel account.