This new collection of short stories from Fielding Dawson continues to define his high-impact short fiction. The stories are set in diverse locales, but all feature strong characters and brilliant dialogue. Cinematic in their way of showing us people and scences rather than telling us about them, these stories reveal themselves and their subjects as little movies, which has always been Dawson's magic. As you read them, you realize it's all one movie, all one story -- there is a consistent and compelling intelligence inside all of them, whether they're taking place inside a prison or on a beach on the island of Crete. That's what resonates with the reader -- the sense of having seen the world through intelligent eyes.