Recounts several months in the lives of about 15 losers who are lower on the criminal food chain than even an Elmore Leonard character. Take the insurance executive who has turned to money laundering to save his failing business after Hurricane Andrew; or the three thug wannabes who end up as vigilantes defending a community of senior citizens against their rapacious landlord; or take Serge and Coleman, who can only be described as Cheech and Chong...

"On the evening following London's great fog of 1897, five men are lounging at the Grill, an exclusive gentleman's club. One, a visiting American diplomat, tells the others that while lost in the fog the night before, he stumbled upon the scene of a double murder! Scotland Yard, he relates, is baffled, but a second club member corroborates the diplomat's fantastic tale, confirming that the murder victims were a Russian princess and a young British...

"In McFalls County, local crime boss Gareth Burroughs runs everything on the mountain. And Nelson "Nails" McKenna has been his enforcer since he was a teenager, though his heart's not really in the dirty work. Then one night in a local roadhouse, Nails goes too far, defending a woman, and even Burroughs's reach can't get him out of this one. With a dead body and countless witnesses, Nails and the woman become fugitives on the run, and unlikely partners....

"Gorya Amurov might be known as his family's peacekeeper, but the leopard inside him wants nothing more than to claw to the surface and unleash hell. A harsh life has shaped him into a vicious fighter with a calm exterior, but Gorya knows it's only a matter of time until he loses all control...Maya Averina has spent years hunting the criminals who destroyed her life...She keeps to herself, stays under the radar...But with her body burning up...an...