January 2027
Strippers Always Need Legal Advice is by Iain Levison. A thousand dollars an hour. Hard to say no when you're a public defender spending your days — Sundays included — on the depressing files of small-time crooks. Then negotiating sentences with a prosecutor who's more powerful than you and considerably less competent. So Justin Sykes, worn down by the grind, accepts: one evening a week advising the dancers at a gentlemen's club, and a night across the street at the motel. Without asking too many questions Because everyone knows — strippers always need legal advice.
May 2027
In late 1989, as the Eastern Bloc collapses and money begins moving across borders as never before, a young Geneva banker and a small-time hustler fall in love in the most discreet city in the world — and decide that love alone is not enough. Svetlana is a brilliant, ambitious analyst at a private bank. Aldo is a tennis coach whose real trade is best left unexamined. Attraction becomes partnership, then appetite: for money, power, and the recognition money is supposed to buy. Inspired by a real Geneva embezzlement case and a real 1990 bank heist, Consumed, A Story of Greed and Desire follows two lovers who help themselves to the fortunes flowing through the city's banks — a “Genevan Bonnie and Clyde,” as one French critic called them. Prize-winning and internationally acclaimed, Joseph Incardona channels the savage wit of Martin Amis's Money and the cool dread of DeLillo's White Noise into a modern tragedy about a world where everything, and everyone, has a price.
June 2027
Dead Man in the Square is by Ben Pastor. As Rome falls and the Wehrmacht retreats into the mountains — the same week the Allies storm Normandy — a German colonel investigates a murder he has no right to solve, using the one man he has orders to execute. Abruzzo, June 1944. Lieutenant Colonel Martin Bora is diverted into the wild country below the Gran Sasso on a mission he cannot refuse: destroy a cache of explosive diplomatic correspondence, then silence the socialist lawyer who holds it. He has barely arrived in the remote village of Faracruci when, unaware that the Allies have just landed in Normandy, an American soldier is found stabbed in the square. Bora can neither report the death nor investigate it officially — so he enlists the very man he is meant to execute. Together they uncover a second, older crime, and a truth that implicates the village's most respected citizen. Ben Pastor's ninth Martin Bora novel is the most purely enjoyable in the series: a classic village mystery, a wartime thriller, and a study of a man who believes in justice while being ordered to violate it.
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