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Be Careful What You Wish For... What if you had the chance to relive your twenties the way you really wanted them to be? Thirty-nine-year-old David is presented with that opportunity by Lucien, a charismatic young Englishman. Ranging from downtown Manhattan to Istanbul, Majorca, and the Hamptons, the two of them live a life of excess-drugs, beautiful women, and adventure-and forge a strange but great friendship. But with every journey, there comes a price; and in every paradise there lurks a temptress. For David, will his quest for excitement lead him to betrayal and loss? "Wynn immerses readers in psychologically rich studies of his characters and their quiet but fraught interactions. The prose is subtle but vivid, intellectually engaged but never arid, as the author provides readers with a flurry of glittering snapshots that gradually coalesce into a picture of tarnished longings. An engrossing and vibrant...meditation on friendship and the deep currents that run beneath its surface." -Kirkus Review

A QUEST FOR EXCITEMENT AND ADVENTURE LEADS TO A DARK PLACE The Benevolent Terrorist is a thinking person's adventure story, in the vein of various novels by Graham Greene, Robert Stone, and Patricia Highsmith. It tells the tale of a troubled young American named Jack who's been wandering the world for extended periods on an increasingly desperate quest for excitement and adventure. Jack is traveling with a likable and beautiful Australian woman, who's quickly getting fed up with him. In Athens, they meet a mysterious loner, an ex-Army guy who recently finished working construction in Tunisia. The unlikely trio travels to a Greek island where a romantic triangle develops. Jack's deep desire to escape boredom and his theory of benevolent terrorism - ¬fighting terrorists with terror - lead the two men on a dark and violent adventure. The novel explores with intelligence a number of the disturbing aspects of life and artfully straddles the boundary between commercial and literary ¬fiction. "A fantastic, existentialist thriller with visceral charm...offers a trio of vivid character studies while ¬filling the narrative] with sinister tension...sharp, philosophical, and occasionally surreal prose."- Kirkus Reviews

"In this short but sweet novella, Wynn spins an enjoyable tale of lost souls colliding in the most unlikely of places."---- Kirkus Reviews Would you risk your life for a stranger? For seventy-three-year-old Jaime, the answer takes him by surprise. Accustomed to a lonely life high up in the mountains on the western coast of Mallorca, his dull routine is suddenly shattered when a man parachutes from a plane and lands nearby. The plane crashes; the man lives. It's a drug smuggling operation gone bad. But Stefan, the man from the sky, has escaped with eight kilos of cocaine in a gym bag. Jaime brings Stefan home and is soon entangled in Stefan's attempts to sell the cocaine and start a new life. As they dodge Parisian drug dealers and corrupt Mallorcan police, Jaime's search for excitement and Stefan's resolve to find stability lead them both down dangerous paths. "Conjuring shades of Steinbeck's meditations on nature, this enjoyable, pleasant yarn passes like the cool summer breezes described within its pages."-- Kirkus Reviews