Author surnames K-O

1/5/08

Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded by a species that takes over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact, and most of humanity has succumbed. Wanderer, the invading 'soul' who has been given Melanie's body, knew about the challenges of living inside a human: the overwhelming emotions, the too-vivid memories.

A suspense novel – and love story – from one of the most acclaimed and popular authors of modern times.

What would you do for love? Would you die? Would you kill?

The setting is Berlin. Into this divided city, wrenched betweenEastandWest, between past and present; comestwenty-five-year-oldLeonardMarnham, assigned to a British-Americansurveillance team.Though onlya pawn in an international plot that isnever fully revealedto him,Leonard uses his secret work to escape thebonds of his ordinarylife -and to lose his unwanted innocence. Thepromise of his new lifebeginsto be fulfilled as Leonard becomes acrucial part of thesurveillanceteam, while simultaneously beinginitiated into a new worldof love andsex by Maria, a beautiful youngGerman woman. It is apromise thatturns to horror in the course of oneterrible evening - anight whenLeonard Marnham learns just how much ofhis innocence he's willing to shed.

5/1/09

In true McInerney style, this new collection of stories examines post 9/11 America in all its dark and morally complex glory. His characters include a young woman holed up in a remote cabin while her (married) boyfriend campaigns for the highest of all offices, a couple whose sexual experiments cross every line imaginable, a young socialite called home to nurse her mother and an older one scheming for her next husband.