Ed Teja: 22 books

Motels dot the highways of America, providing a range of services and prices. We use them. Thousands of us use them for a place to rest, for meetings and assignations, and even, at times, to act out life's dramas. They are souless places, almost perfect for the tragic endings that sometimes seem to take on their own power and strength, playing out no matter what we truly want.

Why did somebody kill that man? The mysterious death of a popular figure at a Caribbean resort has inspector Johnny Cliff wondering why someone might want him dead. He didn't seem to have any enemies, but there's no question it was murder. And he still has to solve the case of Henderson’s...

Paradise can be treacherous, especially on the sea. The lives of a rasta and his girlfriend going fishing in a borrowed boat, and a couple traveling the islands on their sailboat have little enough in common, but when things go wrong they share the life-threatening challenge of the sea.

Ideas can be powerful...and dangerous. When the CIA sends a financial analyst named Tyler Blake to go undercover at the Anarchapulco conference in Mexico, the idea is to have eyes and ears on anarchist plots. Somehow things don't go as planned. Despite good intentions, the ideas of freedom he's exposed to might just be too contagious to resist.

The craziness that comes with the summer heat gets into your bones, fraying relationships and making even thought a chore. Hitting the road leads to finding a mountain without even the weight of a name. Taking a job in a small-town diner where the Norwegian cook reads Cambodian books, it all begins...

Ron Añejo loves his carefree lifestyle in the Caribbean, cruising from one dodgy job to the next in his barely-seaworthy boat. It takes chutzpah and more than a little optimism — when your strongest skill is managing to get by, legal work can be hard to come by, even if you actually had a work...

Ron Añejo loves his carefree lifestyle in the Caribbean, cruising from one dodgy job to the next in his barely-seaworthy boat. It takes chutzpah and more than a little optimism — when your strongest skill is managing to get by, legal work can be hard to come by, even if you actually had a work...

Ron es uno de los mayores aventureros de todo el Caribe. Vive en la isla ficticia de Kayakoo y trabaja en su viejo barco de madera. Disfruta de una vida gloriosa con un presupuesto más bien ajustado, que a menudo solo le llega para comprar comida y ron. Se enfrenta al mundo con un optimismo desmesurado,...