David Antonelli: 9 books

Paul Robertson is a womanizing mercurial man who has assumed the identity of a missing rock photographer after escaping a Mexican prison for a false murder charge. Spurred by his negative experiences in jail to embrace a new existence of lies and duplicity, he arrives in LA and quickly bluffs his...

The Black Tide is the story of a young DJ who becomes involved in a life-altering love triangle with two sisters in New York as he pursues his career as a recording artist. He moves to London and eventually experiences the taste of success on the European club circuit, but soon realises that it was...

Set in Yugoslavia during the Croatian War of Independence, The Mountain opens when American journalist John Anderson discovers a few days before Serbian troops are due to take over their village that his musician wife Anna was involved in yearlong affair that she had just ended. He forgives her at...

Fresh out of an unsatisfying relationship with a younger woman John Martin, New York advertising executive, is suddenly possessed by a strange and irresistible desire to cross the globe to Budapest and strike up a new friendship with his ex-wife, with whom he hasn't spoken in years. Plunged...

Jean is a young aspiring “American in Paris” whose entire existence is turned on its head when he returns from Algeria to be with his lover Jillian only to have her vanish mysteriously just days later. Refusing to believe she is dead, he embarks on a life-altering quest through Paris and...

The Architect is the story of Stephen, a vaguely dissatisfied young man living abroad in London and working as an apprentice to an architecture firm. In need of money he begins to toy with the idea of accepting a loan from a group of three eccentric criminals in exchange for helping them out in an...

The Candidate is a charismatic conman so afraid of failure that he is obsessed with attaining success at all costs. The novel opens when he dazzles at an academic interview and subsequently appoints himself. No one calls his bluff because everyone is afraid to admit they missed the appointment meeting...

The Frozen Ocean is timeless a story of rebellious youth and tragic love set in an anonymous metropolis that could be anywhere in the modern world. Jackie is an enigmatic teenager obsessed with dark Japanese comics and vintage motorcycles who is repelled by the future life set out for him by adult...

Jan Markowicz is a young American bomb maker and aspiring artist trying to escape from his involvement with a secular terrorist organization dedicated to the destruction of American corporate power and globalization. He backs out of a Heathrow bombing plot when the photo of a mysterious woman awakens...