Sam, executor of his best friend's estate after his suicide, falls for his widow, Melanie. She urges Sam to steal the assets, bearer bonds, which her husband perversely left to his parents, not her. She wants to run off to Tahiti with Sam in st...

An American seascape artist hides out in primitive Baja to escape the persecutions of his ex-wife. His satirical antics before visiting CNN cameras bury him in complications. DEA and intelligence agents, Mexican and Colombian drug runners, curre...

On divorce, Dan puts his months-old daughter, Lise, out for adoption. 17 years later, he comes down with an inherited disease, Vlad's Syndrome, which is fatal when it erupts in middle-age, but curable in the young. Dan must find his long-lost ...

Velma is a star showgirl in Vegas at the time that bare-breasted spectacles were introduced during the Fifties. She becomes the mistress of casino boss, Marcus Lambrusco, and bears him a son. Senatorial investigations drive Lambrusco to exile in...

Pepper is a college professor of English Lit who cannot get his own book published. Sick of rewriting and resumitting it, he tosses the ms into a recycling bin. Hank, the trash man, finds it. He has connections in the publishing world. Hank so...

Brandon, a flaky LA millionaire, abuses his showpiece wife, Karla, by controlling her behavior and denying her a baby. Dave, his accountant/ghostwriter, relates Brandon's cruelty. The story reflects the effect of Brandon's lifestyle upon the na...