This fiction, "Cash Fever" is a unique crime thriller. It exposes the high risk area of gambling, man's never ending urge for quick and easy money, the dirty intrigues of criminals and corruption spread over in all the walks of life including public administration. The beautiful craft and architecture of the novel rouses the enthusiasm of the reader from the beginning to the end, in one word, it is a one sit-reading.

"On the eve of the twentieth century, Mary Mallon emigrated from Ireland at age fifteen to make her way in New York City. Brave, headstrong, and dreaming of being a cook, she fought to climb up from the lowest rung of the domestic-service ladder. Canny and enterprising, she worked her way to the kitchen, and discovered in herself the true talent of a chef. Sought after by New York aristocracy, and with an independence rare for a woman of the time,...

"A woman lies bedridden from a high fever. Suddenly she is struck with an urge to revisit a novel from her past. Inside the book is an inscription: a get-well-soon message from Johanna, an ex-girlfriend who is now a famous television host. As she flips through the book, pages from the woman's own past begin to come alive, scenes of events and people she cannot forget. There are moments with Johanna, and Niki, the friend who disappeared years ago without...

Young man arrives in Philadelphia from the country and is cheated, robbed, and confronted with all the evil spawned by commercialism.