Alex Markman: 7 books

A gay man posing as a movie producer causes commotion in the community of a few young straight couples. He attracts women as well as men, much to the annoyance of their partners. A male artist becomes his lover in a desperate attempt to get into the movie business. Shocking revelations of infidelity,...

Inspired by actual events, Contra-ODESSA brings the reader back to 1960s Latin America. Needing money to fund their activities, Soviets send a team of KGB operatives to track down Swiss bank account numbers from Nazis who stashed fortunes obtained from prior looting. Young American secret service...

There is a dialectical logic to why an individual like Putin came to power in Russia. His policies in the past were controversial at best, but now, after the annexation of Crimea and turmoil in Ukraine, Russia’s future is not expected to be bright. Why do Russia’s leaders always seem embroil the...

What sacrifice is too big for all-consuming love? What revenge is worth? Are there psychological and moral boundaries, beyond which passion does not dare to step? Chantal, a woman with irresistible charms was a clear-minded, very successful journalist when at the age of 28 she married a financial...

A turf war between two biker gangs has erupted, turning the streets of a peaceful city into scenes of Hollywood-style assassinations, explosions, and motorcades to killed gangsters’ funerals. Public outcry, police pressure, media, and politicians seem helpless to curb the violence. In the midst...

These stories were inspired by real-life events. Some of them are funny and hopefully will make the reader laugh; others are tragic, revealing the drama of loss, love, and shuttered dreams, so often tormenting our souls. And, of course, erotica and epicurean indulgence in sensual pleasures, which reward us occasionally for our deeds and misdeeds.

Romance and adventure novellas about contemporary North American upper middle class family, exposing highly intense drama behind a decent façade. Acting in exotic places of American wilderness, boardrooms of corporations or comfortable homes, dangerous locales of Jamaica and megalopolises of Canada...