28-year-old Kansas University doctoral student Omar Razaghi wins a grant to write a biography of Latin American writer Jules Gund. Omar must get through to three people who were close to Gund – his brother, widow, and younger mistress – so he can get authorization to write the biography.
Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but met...
When a prostitute is found dead in a Los Angeles skyscraper occupied by a large Japanese corporation...
An ex-convict is tracked down by his estranged teenage son, and the pair try to build a relationship...
A phobic con artist and his protege are on the verge of pulling off a lucrative swindle when the con...
Lakshmi is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her family in a small hut on a mountain in Nepal....
A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along wi...
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with ...
When a son and mother move to Seattle in hopes for a better life, the mother meets a seemingly polit...
Cynical British journalist Fowler falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman but is dismayed when a...
In 1998, a small South American village is in a flurry over the Pope's upcoming visit for the busine...
A businessman who lives from blackmailing begins to be blackmailed by his own wife who hates him.
After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a ...
Once called "Father Frank" for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank Pierce sees the ghosts of those he...
Penelope Keeling, a sixty-four-year-old daughter of a famous artist, reflects on her life, and the f...
The story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ult...
“My plan was to die before the money ran out,” says 60-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite France...
Captain Khorshid is a sailor who although only having one hand, manages to sail his little boat. In ...
An artist falls for a married young woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait. The two inv...
Police Inspector Renko tries to solve the case of three bodies found in Moscow's Gorky Park but find...