15 stories
Reptile Memoirs
Reptile Memoirs by Silje Ulstein is a psychological noir thriller that follows two intertwining timelines set in Norway. The plot revolves around Liv, who becomes obsessed with a pet python, Nero, and a 2017 investigation into a missing child, Iben, linking themes of childhood trauma, obsession, and the cold-blooded nature of humanity.
The Winds of Winter Future Film Adaptation
Martin stated in a 2012 interview that The Winds of Winter and the following book, A Dream of Spring, would take readers farther north than any of the previous books, and the Others will appear in the book. The last installment, A Dance with Dragons, covered less story than Martin intended, excluding at least one planned extensive battle sequence and leaving several character threads ending in cliffhangers. Martin wants to resolve these storylines "very early" in The Winds of Winter, saying, "I'm going to open with the two big battles that I was building up to, the battle in the ice and the battle at Meereen—the battle of Slaver's Bay. And then take it from there." A Victarion Greyjoy chapter will begin five minutes after the end of A Dance with Dragons, taking place on the eve of the Ironborn's arrival in Slaver's Bay. Arianne Martell's sample chapters that Martin released on his website showed her heading for Griffin's Roost to see the young man who is calling himself Aegon Targaryen. At the Guadalajara International Book Fair 2016, Martin gave some clues about the dark nature of The Winds of Winter: "I've been telling you for 20 years that winter was coming. Winter is the time when things die, and cold, ice, and darkness fill the world, so this is not going to be the happy, feel-good people may be hoping for. Some of the characters [are] in very dark places. .... Things get worse before they get better, so things are getting worse for a lot of people."
The Given Day (Mini Series Adaptation)
Set in Boston at the end of the First World War, New York Times best-selling author Dennis Lehane's long-awaited eighth novel unflinchingly captures the political and social unrest of a nation caught at the crossroads between past and future.
A Perfect Spy (Film Adaptation)
A Perfect Spy is the life story of Magnus Pym, a British intelligence officer and double agent. The book opens in Vienna where Magnus is ostensibly a diplomat and also a spy, living with his wife Mary who assists with diplomatic matters and their son Tom. After returning to England to attend his father's funeral, Pym mysteriously disappears. As his fellow intelligence officers frantically search for him it becomes clear that, throughout most of his career, Magnus worked as a spy for the Czechoslovak secret service. Although intrigue, wit, and suspense make up much of the novel, the story of Magnus Pym is partly an unadorned recollection of his childhood and memories of his father Rick Pym.
Only Killers and Thieves and Dust Off the Bones (TV Show Adaptation)
(Only Killers and Thieves) Queensland, 1885. It is a scorching day in Australia's deserted outback when Tommy McBride and his brother, Billy, return home to discover a devastating tragedy. Distraught and eager for revenge, the young men set out in search of the perpetrators. (Dust Off the Bones) It focuses on the aftermath of the McBride family's slaughter, leading to the horrific massacre of the Kurrong tribe in the northern Queensland wilderness. This story was featured in the previous book 'Only Killers and Thieves. It spans the time from 1885 to 1906 and later.
Tomás Nevinson (Film Adaptation)
Retired spy Tomás Nevinson—once an agent for the British Secret Service, now living a quiet life in his hometown, Madrid—is approached by his former handler, Bertram Tupra, with an offer to bring him back in from the cold for one last assignment. The mission: to go undercover again, in a small Spanish town, to find out which of three women who moved there a decade ago is in fact a terrorist trained by the IRA, on the run after masterminding several deadly attacks. Everything about the assignment is shadowy, from exactly who is in charge, to the question of what “justice” Nevinson will need to mete out once he unmasks the terrorist. But, lured by the appeal of being back on the inside, he accepts the job. Nevinson soon becomes intimately involved with each of the three women. How—or whom—to choose? Under increasing pressure, he must choose, and then act . . . Charting a world in which right and wrong, good and evil, are irreparably blurred, Javier Marías takes us on a journey of rare and unforgettable suspense in this, the final novel written before his untimely passing.
The Thaumaturge (Film Adaptation)
The Thaumaturge is a story-driven RPG with morally ambiguous choices, taking place in the culturally diverse world of early 20th century Warsaw. In this world, salutors exist: esoteric beings that only thaumaturges can truly perceive and use for their needs.
The Borrowed (Film Adaptation)
A propulsive crime drama featuring a legendary Hong Kong detective on a decades-long quest to expose the city’s dark underbelly. Covering six cases that span Kwan Chun-dok’s impressive fifty-year career, The Borrowed takes readers on a tour of Hong Kong history from the Leftist Riot in 1967; the conflict between the HK Police and ICAC (Independent Commission Against Corruption) in 1977; the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989; the Handover in 1997; to the present day of 2013, when Kwan is called on to solve his final case, the murder of a local billionaire, while Hong Kong increasingly resembles a police state. Along the way we meet Communist rioters, ultraviolent gangsters, stallholders at the city’s many covered markets, pop singers enmeshed in the high-stakes machinery of star-making, and a people always caught in the shifting balance of political power, whether in London or Beijing. A gripping and brilliantly constructed novel from a talented new voice in crime fiction, The Borrowed paints a dynamic portrait of Hong Kong and reveals just how closely the past and present are connected in this fascinating city.
A Long Night in Paris (Film Adaptation)
When an Israeli tech executive disappears from Charles de Gaulle airport with a woman in red at his side, logic dictates youthful indiscretion. But Israel is on a state of high alert nonetheless. And for Commissaire Léger of the Paris Police Force, all coincidences are suspect. When a second young Israeli from the flight is kidnapped, this time at gunpoint from his hotel room, his suspicions are confirmed—and a diplomatic crisis looms. As the race to identify the reasons behind the abductions intensifies, a covert Chinese commando team watches from the rooftops— while hour by hour the morgue receives fresh bodies from around Paris. This could be one long night in the City of Lights.
I Am Pilgrim (Film Adaptation)
A breakneck race against time...and an implacable enemy. An anonymous young woman murdered in a run-down hotel, all identifying characteristics dissolved by acid. A father publicly beheaded in the blistering heat of a Saudi Arabian public square. A notorious Syrian biotech expert found eyeless in a Damascus junkyard. Smoldering human remains on a remote mountainside in Afghanistan. A flawless plot to commit an appalling crime against humanity. One path links them all, and only one man can make the journey. Pilgrim.'
Jason Lutes Berlin (Film Adaptation)
An exciting story about the evolution of Berlin through the late twenties and early thirties through a vast and varied cast of characters that enable the following of different points of view, ideals, and situations.
Atomic Heart (Film Adaptation)
In a mad and sublime utopian world, take part in explosive encounters. Adapt your fighting style to each opponent, use your environment and upgrade your equipment to fulfill your mission. If you want to reach the truth, you'll have to pay in blood.
The Unberarable Lightness of Being (HBO Mini-series)
The New Adaption of the Iconic Novel by Czech Writer Milan Kundera from the producers of the Wire, The Deuce, Generation Kill, We Own This City, and The Director of Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, Tropical Malady, and Memoria.
As Dusk Falls Film Adaptation
Based on The INTERIOR/NIGHT debut masterpiece tells the story of a robbery gone wrong that led to the Hostage situation in 1998 Arizona.
Hunting The Truth (Film Adaptation)
Based on the True Story of France's most fearless Nazi Hunter Couple, Serge and Beate Klarsfeld.
