Up Above the WorldA chance encounter while holidaying in Central America leads an American couple, the Slades, to befriend the charming, handsome Grove Soto and his young Cuban mistress. But as the Slades' trip becomes prolonged and they grow increasingly dependent on their new acquaintances, an undercurrent of cruelty begins to disturb the comfort and niceties to which they are accustomed. Up Above the World shows Paul Bowles to be a master of the tension and horror

When one of Myles' investments fails they are bound to lose everything

the seemingly impossible can happen

and 1960 brings the presidential battle between two ambitious senators: John Kennedy and Richard Nixon

dreams and hope

tracing $3 million in ransom money

a gentleman sleuth who solves murders and mysteries in tsarist Russia

out of the darkness

He takes the reader beyond self-consciousness

if the professor can't escape

Robert Barnard

With a small army and diminishing supplies

Peer lives a life of servitude