With explosive narrative skill, Tom Paine pulls you into the worlds of a cross-dressing army general, a confused down-and-out being offered an incredible opportunity, a despairing man whose mother hates him for no apparent reason, a teenage anarchist, a West Indian mayor or a Romanian TV journalist. Paine's stories feature exotic locales, and take you on adventures you never imagined. Like Ernest Hemmingway, Robert Stone, Richard Ford and Russell Banks, Tom Paine grips the reader with passion and vision.