Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die, and hired guns Eli and Charlie Sisters will make sure of it. Though Eli doesn't share his brother's appetite for whiskey and killing, he's never known anything else. But their prey isn't an easy mark, and on the road from Oregon City to Warm's goldmining claim outside Sacramento, Eli begins to question what he does for a living—and whom he does it for.
For Pip, swimming is a necessity. With a hopeless mother, a drug-addled sister and a best friend more interested in her own love-life than in friendship, swimming provides a welcome escape. Swimming is a novel about growing up, about talent, and about having what it takes to survive.
Playboy millionnaire, l'ignoble Vivek 'Vicky' Rai est tué lors de sa propre garden-party. Six convives sont suspectés : un bureaucrate possédé par l'esprit de Gandhi, l'actrice la plus glamour de Bollywood, fan de Nietzsche, un tout petit aborigène très doué pour l'effraction, un gamin des rues voleur de portables au physique de jeune premier, un Monsieur catastrophe texan sous protection judiciaire, et le must du politicien corrompu, le propre père de la victime. Des palaces de Delhi aux bidonvilles de Mehrauli, des repaires terroristes du Cachemire aux cabanes des îles Andaman, des berges du Gange aux tapis rouges des premières de Bombay, entre soif de justice, vengeances, manigances politiques, quête d'un totem perdu ou d'une fiancée par correspondance, tous les chemins semblent mener au jardin du crime. Mais qui a tué Vicky ?