Ken Kaye: 6 books

The protagonists of Ken Kaye's collected stories (some previously published, most not) are al natives or residents of Evanston, Illinois. The book title also acknowledges the coincidence of birds in major, supporting, or walk-on roles (a gull prompts a mute teenager to open up in therapy; a falcon...

Rejecting Milton's theological vision of Paradise Lost, Ken Kaye takes only one Biblical assertion literally: that Adam lived 930 years. His "memoir" is both a love story--assuming that Eve's life was almost as long, and every bit as productive--and a fantastic account of the mental and...

Paul Best is the youngest son in a third-generation Chicago real estate and finance empire. Approaching 30, depressed by a breakup, failing in his ambitions as an artist and struggling to beat drug addiction, he agrees to try working with his father and brother in the family's group of businesses,...

On Sept. 12, 2002, the New York papers reported a murder-suicide in a Times Square office. A former FBI agent, fifty-six years old, Director of Security for Blue Cross of New York, shot a young woman and another man, then took his own life. Both the killer and the young woman had been in the World...

Herb McRay, a builder, goes online to publish his wife's illustrated children's books -- incognito."I thought ahead, all the way to the last chapter. My fantasy did not culminate in a denouement when my brilliant, loving deed could berevealed to Suzanne; when we could laugh about...

From page one, we know how a pair of heavily armed hijackers boarded Airmex's Flight 246, but we don't know who they are. Where do they intend to go with the twin turboprop aircraft, its nine passengers and three crew members? And why was this domestic Mexican airline the target?When they...