Dr Ben Givens had been a bypass heart surgeon, admired in his field. The fallibility of the human body had been distant from him until a diagnosis of his own condition - which he concealed even...

In 1962, when mild-mannered actuary Walter Cousins sleeps with the sharp-tongued, not-quite-legal British au pair Diane Burroughs, he can have no sense of the magnitude of his error. For the brief...

It is 1972. Neil Countryman is from the public high school in north Seattle. He slumps at his desk all day and gets high in the park at lunchtime. John William Barry is from a private academy for...