NUESTRO ESPACIO DOLIENTE Richard Montauk J.D. Alfred insists he must tell

Alfred insists he must tell Julia his life story in the hope of saving Brynja's life after he is gone

And by weaving stories from locations as diverse as a Las Vegas casino and a Soho speed-date together with insights from an ingenious new breed of economist

whose simple life is suddenly turned upside down

you know you've thought it--while viewing a masterpiece of abstract art

NUESTRO ESPACIO DOLIENTE Richard Montauk J.D. Alfred insists he must tellIn his fiction debut, Matt Love bends and twists the detective novel genre with hilarious, unexpected and political results. The premise: a Los Angeles developer is trying to privatize Oregons publicly owned beaches, its vaunted great birthright, and only one washed up detective and self published writer can stop him. In The Great Birthright, a slick and tanned Los Angeles developer, Ronald Ryan, colludes with medieval US Supreme Court Justice Antonin