Böcker av Charlie Stella

THE VOICES IN MY HEADCharles is born into the American Catholic Dream. Father is cruel to be kind ("Charles was good this week. Charles was bad this week."), pitting him against his sister in the battle for affection. Momma, in her native Italian language, calls him piccolo Ges├╣ (Little Jesus). In his personal battle of good versus evil, Charles turns to daydreams. Can he be saved? Seeking redemption requires more than good intentions. It requires luck too, the kind that places the exact right person in the exact right time and place. It requires love that has nothing to do with money and everything to do with finding a soul that has been petrified by lifelong emotional rejection.A woman to the rescue? Or is the voice of a saint that does the trick? Or maybe it''s the voice of young political activist, or is it the voice of the Archangel Metatron?Little Jesus tells his tale in the second person voice of "You" ... just one of the many voices in his head.

EDDIE'S WORLD Eddie Senta is in the middle of a midlife crisis. His wife's biological clock is ticking and she wants a baby. She also wants him to start making some money. And his career as a word processor is going nowhere. Even his old gig as a runner for the mob holds no excitement for him anymore. Eddie feels trapped. So when an old friend shows up with an opportunity to make an easy score with a quick robbery, he takes it. It's more the thrill than anything that appeals to him. But the robbery's a bust, and now he's involved in a triple murder case with the FBI after him, a crazy killer under the federal witness protection on his ass, and two New York detectives and a Russian mobster not far behind. Eddie's life just got interesting.