Washington Square Press - Böcker

When Alexander Vine finishes his work day, he leaves his post as a doorman at Manhattan's exclusive Four Seasons restaurant -- and enters a nighttime landscape of chance and danger, excitement and reinvention in the city's erotic underworld. Walking a tightrope between sexual desire and self-extinction, Alexander Vine charts his destructive course -- and his struggle for redemption -- with startling, unadorned clarity.

No one can forget the scalding images of defiance and bravery that appeared on our television screens in 1989. Teeming masses of students made history in Tiananmen Square, uniting their voices in protest of China's Communist regime. Impassioned young libertarians stood their ground in front of advancing tanks, stared down the menace of hulking cannons, and withstood two weeks of mounting tension. In the end, military forces charged in and brutally suppressed the revolt, killing untold numbers of students - and ordering the arrest of all responsible for the protest. Over the next two years, Chinese police managed to account for every one of these student leaders - except one. ESCAPE FROM CHINA is a gripping first-person account of how China's most-wanted fugitive trumped overwhelming obstacles and evaded a ruthless police search for more than two years before finding freedom in the West. Travelling across the frozen terrain of the former Soviet Union, where Russian peasants rescued him, and finding his way through the deserted lands of China's precarious borders, Zhang had little but his extraordinary will to keep him moving, surviving for months at a time on wild animals.In the course of his long ordeal, he loses his love, finds God and eventually, freedom.

In this eagerly awaited sequel to Dead Above Ground, it has been ten years since Lita Du Champ left New Orleans with her family to make a life in Los Angeles. Issues from her hometown continue to haunt her and while her twin sisters conspire to free themselves from her protective grip, Lita can't decide whether to stay in a marriage that is dangerously weak. It is in the midst of this that her troublesome aunt calls to tell Lita that her estranged father is on his deathbed and that her beloved mother - presumed dead - my in fact be alive.