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Dishonest Days is a thrilling, continent-sweeping novel of conspiracy and revenge from the Man Booker Prize-longlisted author of The Kills. 1986, the Laos–Cambodia border. Fourteen women drown in an accident, all of them participants in a drug trial for Panzet Pharmaceuticals. Scattered...

Listen. There’s a problem and it can't be solved. You need to disappear. This is Stephen Lawrence Sutler's last morning at Camp Liberty, Iraq. In two hours a massive explosion will conceal the theft of $53 million. Sutler, shaken by the blast and forced to go the run, is unaware that any money is missing or that he has been set up. And his problems are just beginning.

Inspired by an old crime novel called The Kill, two brothers travel to Naples. They abduct an American student, take him to a basement – and cut him to pieces. An investigation begins. The crime becomes a media sensation because of its fictional inspiration. And then another student disappears.

Down on his luck and desperate for money, Rem Gunnersen accepts an unusual proposition: to lead a team of seven men to Camp Liberty. A remote military base in the Iraqi desert, it is the place where the detritus of war is incinerated, buried, removed from memory. For a long time the camp has been unmanned. Rem and his men have no idea why they need to be there. Then Stephen Lawrence Sutler arrives.

A man is found in the desert, burned beyond all recognition. Thomas Berens thinks this is the man he’s been hunting. The last survivor. The Kills is an epic novel of crime and conspiracy told in four books. It begins with a man on the run and ends with a burned body.

Between Now and When relates a transcendental journey from earthly suffering and addiction into the rarely glimpsed supra-reality of higher dimensions. The author first experienced the oneness of existence at the age of seven. As a teen, he heard a mystical voice that foretold his death at age 33, a prophecy that left him on death’s doorstep at exactly that age. His surrender complete, he was propelled into the fourth dimension where his body was miraculously healed.

Nel cuore della notte John Ford riceve una chiamata dal suo capo: "Sta' a sentire. C'è un problema e non si può risolvere. Devi sparire." Ma John non è conosciuto con il suo nome, bensì con quello di Stephen Sutler. Lavora in Iraq come responsabile del progetto della Hosco, una società inglese che ha appena ottenuto un appalto per vendere materiale per la ricostruzione. La missione di Sutler è spostare il denaro della Hosco su nuovi conti correnti. Appena le transazioni sono finite, nel campo avviene una fragorosa esplosione e Sutler riesce a scappare oltre la frontiera turca.

What happens when the lights go off in the world? What happens when they stay off in New York City and everywhere else? Our story finds a group of doctors at the Waldorf Astoria who must find ways to cope … and eventually to survive. Tom Dalton becomes a tunnel rat in Manhattan as he eludes bad men and chaos for a time before help finally arrives, unexpected and magical help from another dimension. He also meets a powerful woman who partners with him as they form a cadre of like-minded survivors and begin a quest. Can great love and resilience counter black magic and opposition?