Böcker av Tyler Sage

Niko lives by isolation. A fixer who started his career by solving problems for Los Angeles' organized crime elements, he now works for a higher-class clientele. But the rules are still the same. If you want to hire him, you get a phone number and nothing more. Once he's done the job, you never see him again. But now events are closing in on Niko, threatening his ability to remain detached. A famous actress has hired him to recover a sculpture she thinks her son has stolen from her. At the same time, Niko has found himself in possession of a $10 million dollar painting from an art-forgery heist gone bad. Now the cops are after him from one side, a European mafia boss is coming at him from the other, and young women all over the city are disappearing in incidents that seem to be related to his cases. And the further he's drawn into the mystery, the more Niko realizes that survival is going to mean encountering things no one ever should. The Subterranean Man is a hardboiled L.A. noir that explores celebrity, wealth, the degradation that can attend them, and the biggest question of all: What happens when finding the answer to a mystery means facing your own destruction?

Billionaire Donald Swearingen is grieving the recent death of his wife Mary Kate when he is summoned to the seaside estate of his neighbor and old friend Althea Wintergreen, who has a piece of shocking news for him: she believes that her son Jeffery was having an affair with Mary Kate and may have been the one who killed her. It's a tragic suspicion, and she desperately wants Don's help in finding out the truth. Reluctantly, he agrees. Or perhaps not reluctantly...because everything is not as it seems. Soon, Don finds himself being pursued by an implacable police detective named Sebold, investigating an entirely different murder than the one he set out to solve, and discovering that there may be one or two skeletons in his friend Althea's family closet...matching the ones in his own. It's almost more than an eccentric billionaire who came by his fortune in a less-than-scrupulous manner can stand. The Dead Wife is a darkly comedic noir mystery about the wealthiest people in California, the indie film industry, corrupt cops, faded dreams, personal betrayals, murder, revenge, blackmail, and a jade-green sports car once owned by the Prince of Monaco. And beneath all of this lies a single question: what the hell is the truth, and how can we tell when we've actually discovered it? Or is that two questions? Come join Don Swearingen as he sorts it all out...

William Klein's Mr. Freedom (1969) is one of the most important American satirical films ever made, the tale of an American superhero with disastrously misguided priorities.