Ken Kaye: 9 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...

George Leon is a hip, hardworking magazine publisher and quite the ladies man, too. On a pretty March morning, he is driving merrily down Interstate 75 in South Florida, when a fuel tanker blows up right in front of him. Almost killed in the ensuing fire and chaos, he wants to know why, exactly,...

A superstar singer and a jilted journalist-- imprisoned together at 30,000 feet It was supposed to be the best day of his life. Jeff Bruce, a small-time newspaper editor, had planned to take to his girlfriend to dinner and surprise her with an engagement ring during dessert. Instead, he finds...

Great leaders are great learners More than a decade ago, a group of bestselling authors, thought leaders and management experts - among them Marshall Goldsmith, Beverly Kaye and Ken Shelton - met to share their defining moments on leadership with one another. So taken were they with each other's...