Steven Key Meyers: 4 books

The Cold War’s at its hottest in 1953 when Dora Berlin hires Bruce Harnes, a handsome young classical-music manager, to start a summer festival on her Westchester County estate. But there’s a catch: Ever since the rich widow’s fling 20 years earlier with a famous Russian inventor (an affair...

After losing his lover and, in the wake of 9/11, his job, Jack hits the road in a classic RV on the quest for Paradise, USA. It seems he’s found it in a summer job at a bucolic Kansas park, but this Eden turns out to be as tricky as the original.park. Percy, a stickler for the rules whose...

This story of young love begins with a bang. The narrator is Edward, Cuban-born CCNY honors student and page at the New York Public Library (just a page, not a whole book or anything) - ”handsome, charming, reeking of sex” - who begins narrating his propulsive and compelling story at his first...

My Mad Russian: Three Tales is a tasty gumbo of drug-dealing, murder, arson, adultery, tax evasion, kidnaping, attempted murder, home invasion, insurance fraud and international intrigue. In the title tale, Piotyr Alexandreyevitch Primov brings his invention—the eerie Primover, the first electronic...