Of all the Trucial States that lie along the southern coast of the Persian Gulf, none is bleaker and more forbidding in aspect than the miniscule Sheikhdom of Qad al Akh. It is not oil which accounts for the relative prosperity of Qad al Akh. This mini-nation’s sole export is Cannabis sativa… ...
Farrel Ivins may be standing on the gallows with his neck in a noose, but he's not worried. He's taken a drug that makes it impossible to contemplate his future, and besides, he hasn't given his «final» speech yet. He knows that when the governor hears about the odd goings-on in Oxford Circus, Lake City, Chicago, and Chinatown Crescent, where the tong of the Lean Grey Rats rules, Farrel is bound to be saved. So begins the most Ori ...
The Photographer is hired to kill a man who is using a model to smuggle heroin into the U.S…but the model double-crosses him with unexpected results. ...
The Photographer latest assignment: identify and kill The Butcher, a rival killer. Noting that The Butcher's victims show no signs of struggle, are all ugly, and wore topaz jewelry in bad taste, he deduces that The Butcher is a demented interior decorator. But nothing is ever quite as it seems… ...
In «Second Talent,» Manuel, Holding's photographer assassin, is assigned to kill a rare art collector, Senhor Martinho. But Martinho has plans of his own… ...
