Gilbert Selwyn, an unemployed, gay schemer, and Moira Finch, his demonically conniving fiancee, engage their friends, their families, and their wits in a plan to stage a wedding and make off with a fortune in wedding gifts. Set in contemporary New York and reminiscent of the comedies of P.G. Wodehouse and Preston Sturges, Blue Heaven is the uproarious tale of a mostly unlikely couple and their brilliant plan to earn a fortune on the way to the altar.
Mimi Perrin Books
The Deceiver
- 477 pages
- 17 hours of reading
Sam McCready is "The Deceiver", one of Special Intelligence Service's most unorthodox and valuable operatives. However, as the Cold War ends, Sam has become expendable and his past career is reviewed at a special hearing to decide his future.
ABSOLUTE FRIENDS is a superbly paced novel spanning fifty-six years, a theatrical masterstroke of tragi-comic writing, and a savage fable of our times, almost of our hours. The friends of the title are Ted Mundy, British soldier's son born 1947 in a shining new independent Pakistan, and Sasha, refugee son of an East German Lutheran pastor and his wife who have sought sanctuary in the West. The two men meet first as students in riot-torn West Berlin of the late Sixties, again in the grimy looking-glass of Cold War espionage and, most terribly, in today's unipolar world of terror, counter-terror and the war of lies. Deriving its scale from A PERFECT SPY and its passion from THE CONSTANT GARDENER, Le Carré's new novel presents us with magical writing, characters to delight, and a spellbinding story that enchants even as it challenges.