Jefferson Mules embezzles money from the wealthy clients of his securities firm to fund "Operation Stingray," an organization that steals ammunition from military bases to sell to rebels in Honduras. He also has stolen his neighbor's wife, Linda. Linda's husband Blake discovers Jefferson's secret and Blake winds up dead. Now Jefferson's life is in danger and the wife he turned his back on may be the only one who can save him.

Un magnate de Barcelona aparece ahorcado en su mansión. Enfrentado a la ruina y al desprestigio social, todo apunta a un suicidio. En su garganta, incrustada, una diminuta cruz, la misma que la madre del fallecido llevaba el día en que fue asesinada cuando el era todavia un nino. Roberto es un honrado inspector de Hacienda, bien conocido por su capacidad de investigar las tramas más turbias de fraude y que está siendo sometido a un cruel chantaje...

"The tables are turned when State Trooper Dan Benson seeks Elaine and Jan's unofficial help with a baffling case. Dan learns that his best friend, Alex, has been accused of embezzlement and removed from his position as CEO of a well-respected nonprofit organization called Homes for Maine's Heroes. Dan is certain Alex is innocent, but his superiors seem all too eager to close the book on the case. Hoping to uncover the truth, Elaine volunteers at HMH...

This collection presents characters in the midst of personal and national crises. We meet a failed poet who, envious of other people's wealth during the real-estate bubble, becomes an embezzler; a clavichordist whose dreams of art collapse under the obligations of marriage and fatherhood; and, in "Bronze," a sexually confused college freshman whose encounter with a stranger on a train leads to a revelation about his past and his future.

In A twist of fate, while investigating Erin O'Toole, whom he believes is guilty of embezzling funds, Kane Webster, the new owner of the First Puget Bank, succumbs to the fierce passion that rages between them, but when Erin discovers his true intent, Kane must find a way to prove his love. In Tears of pride, after a fire claims the life of her father and destroys most of her family's winery, Sheila Lindstrom, shocked to discover that the winery is...

In The cutting edge, Brett Rutland, Carter Engineering's top troubleshooter, is sent to the L.A. office to crack a case of embezzlement. Brett's a hard man, so it hit him like a sledgehammer when he fell in love with Tessa Conway. Half the men in the office had been in love with her for years, but Brett was the first she'd loved in return. Their love is perfect, too perfect to last. And when Brett discovers the identity of the embezzler, his whole...

This collection of stories presents characters in the midst of personal and national emergencies. We meet a failed poet who, envious of other people's wealth during the real-estate bubble, becomes an embezzler; a clavichordist whose dreams of art founder under the obligations of marriage and fatherhood; a sexually confused college freshman whose encounter with a stranger on a train leads to a revelation about his past and his future; and a high school...

Collection includes: Pleasures of the Flesh (Etsuraku, 1965, color); Violence at Noon (Hakuchu No Torima, 1966, B & W); Sing a Song of Sex (Nihon Shunka-Ko, 1967, color); Japanese Summer: Double Suicide (Muri Shin Ju: Nihon No Natsu, 1967, B & W); and Three Resurrected Drunkards (Kaette Kita Yopparai, 1968, color).