A private investigator shares his most exciting assignments. His undercover adventures include international kidnapping, protecting Robert DeNiro, and a dangerous confrontation with the Russian Mafia.

In SEARCHING FOR BOBBY FISHER author Fred Waitzkin explored his relationship with his son--and in this work he examines his relationship with his own father. Reflecting on his childhood, Waitzkin shares his memories of his parents' troubled relationship, his father's ups and downs as a brilliant but ruthless salesman, and the special bond he and his father shared.

The daughter of African-American novelist Alice Walker and Jewish activist Mel Leventhal, this memoirist shares her complicated experiences as a biracial child growing up in the waning days of the civil rights movement.

Set at the end of the 18th century, the story is told by a man who tends the graves of the old Scottish Covenanters. As he tells their stories, a picture of Scotland during the Jacobite Rebellion is created, particularly in the tale of the novel's hero, Henry Morton, a Covenanter in love with a woman from a family of royalist sympathizers, and the noble Lord Evandale, who saves Morton's life even though they both love the same woman.

An autobiographical novel in which Gilbert Pinfold, a middle-aged English novelist, is on a long sea voyage home to England. A medication prescribed by his doctor causes an extended sequence of hallucinations, in which Pinfold hears voices describing him as a hypocrite and snob and plotting to do away with him. Unusually serious and stylistically straightforward for Waugh, "Gilbert Pinfold" was the only work in which the author alluded to his own struggle with addiction.

This is Evelyn Waugh's outsider's account of a troubled aristocratic family. Charles Ryder, the narrator, is a dull and rather pompous undergraduate at Oxford when he meets Sebastian Flyte, a wealthy and sybaritic classmate. The two become improbable friends, and Sebastian brings Charles to Brideshead, his family estate, and introduces him into the circle of rich aristocratic layabouts who inhabit the place. Charles falls in love with Sebastian's sister, Julia, but religious objections (Charles is divorced, and the Flytes are Catholics) stand in the way of their marriage. Although strongly satirical in parts, and written with the savage wit for which Waugh was renowned, BRIDESHEAD REVISITED is a work of rare sensitivity and depth. The novel was made into a landmark 11-hour mini-series by the BBC in 1991, starring Jeremy Irons as Charles, Laurence Olivier as Lord Marchmain (for which he won an Emmy), Claire Bloom as Lady Marchmain, and John Gielgud as Charles's father, Edward.