Peter Kay

Peter Kay edited the ridiculously simplified synopses of Try the Morgue: A Novel Wednesday, February 20, 2013.

• Added: Arms dealing in Karachi, Islamabaad and Chechenya. Suburban motherhood in the Netherlands. Reonciliation?

Peter Kay edited the characters of Try the Morgue: A Novel Wednesday, February 20, 2013.

• Edited a character: Eva Maria StaalMaria: An international arms dealer working for Jimmy Liu. She is the voice of the story, and recounts her life, both fifteen years in the past and in the present. In the "past," she is a twenty-five year old female arms broker, the meat of the story. In the "present," she is the mother of a young daughter and married.

Peter Kay edited the summary of Try the Morgue: A Novel Wednesday, February 20, 2013.

• Try the Morgue opens with Maria, the 25-year-old protagonist, being lured by the promise of a "better salary and more 'intelligent' work" into taking a position as assistant to Jimmy Liu, a gay international arms dealer mogul. Before long, she shows a talent for the cutthroat negotiating necessary in this field. Jimmy's charisma keeps Maria enthralled with her work, even when her assignments end with her dumping her long-term boyfriend, hiding in a bunker in Chechnya, getting carjacked in China, and escaping from a hospital in Pakistan. Maria has the instincts to deal with the job's physical dangers, but it's harder to guard against its moral and emotional ones. Eventually, Maria has a falling out with Jimmy and goes to work for his competitor. When she discovers that her first new assignment involves child-trafficking in the United Arab Emirates, she quits the business for good, settling down with the old boyfriend she dumped to raise a daughter. Still, traces of her old life linger.

Peter Kay edited the characters of Try the Morgue: A Novel Wednesday, February 20, 2013.

• Added a character: Victor: Victor is a young, drug-addicted male prostitute who Jimmy lavishes with expensive gifts.
• marked the description of Victor as not a spoiler

Peter Kay edited the characters of Try the Morgue: A Novel Wednesday, February 20, 2013.

• Changed the section title: Cast of Characters/Important People
• Added a character: Eva Maria Staal: An international arms dealer working for Jimmy Liu. She is the voice of the story, and recounts her life, both fifteen years in the past and in the present. In the "past," she is a twenty-five year old female arms broker, the meat of the story. In the "present," she is the mother of a young daughter and married.
• marked the description of Eva Maria Staal as not a spoiler
• Added a character: Jimmy Liu: One of the world's most notorious and successful arms dealers, Jimmy takes Maria under her wing. His philosophy of the arms trade is that it is a necessary to maintain world order. He has a penchant for booze and young male prostitutes.
• marked the description of Jimmy Liu as not a spoiler

Peter Kay edited the page settings of Twilight at Mac's Place Friday, February 8, 2013.

• Unhid these sections: movie connections, books that influenced this book, books that cite this book, books cited by this book

Peter Kay edited the books like this book of Contents May Have Shifted Tuesday, January 22, 2013.

• Added Wild