Robert Girardi

A sweeping tale of love and redemption, honor and war, Robert Girardi's Gorgeous East follows three French Foreign legionnaires of very different backgrounds from the cliffs of Mont Saint-Michel to Istanbul's ancient alley ways, from raucous Parisian bars to the desolate Sahara. Gorgeous East takes us on an epic and unforgettable adventure with the wonderful John Smith, a lost Brooklynite they call the Handsome American Cowboy; Colonel de Noyer, the...

A stockbroker smitten by a femme fatale quits his boring job for a life of adventure. The woman is the daughter of a modern pirate and the adventure turns out to be trade in slaves. The stockbroker discovers he does not have the stomach for such enterprise, frees the slaves, gives up his love and returns to his boring job.

A collection of stories in which people have to make choices. Typical is the story, Three Ravens on a Red Ground, in which a company executive must decide between protecting his workers' jobs or enriching himself by selling to the Japanese.