Stepper, Brian CastroFiction Espionage, Soviet. Paperback published in 1997. Tokyo, 1933. Tall, broodingly handsome, Victor Stepper is a consummate ladies' man, a brilliant journalist and spy. As the world descends into war, Stepper collects information and sends it on to Moscow. Then he falls in love with Reiko, a Japanese woman. And Victor Stepper begins to fall apart Stepper is a dazzling and haunting novel of espionage and erotic love. (from the book jacket)

we're all as f*cked as each other

DeGeneres's compulsively readable style will appeal to fans old and new

I literally could not put it down' GWYNETH PALTROW

unsolved multiple homicide

These stories are all about human beings: about how little we can know (or may care to know) about the people with whom we spend our lives

Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn’t commit

clawed to death furniture

Even the celebrated opera house

he creates a brilliantly compelling

desperately to conceal the Soviet Union’s difficulties with a screen of blustering bravado

a Tea Party stronghold

quadruplicities