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Why are the bad ones always so very, very good? FBI special agent Nicola Guthrie is on her first field assignment. To find security expert turned art thief Gabe Wilder. And, late one night, she does. Not to mention a whole lot more! Who knew her traitorous body would respond so strongly to Gabe’s sensuous lips, her own irresistible need?Gabe can’t believe that Nicola thinks he’s the bad guy! Then again, he’s almost tempted to confess, just so he can keep tasting her incredible mouth. But a daring criminal is terrorising the city’s wealthiest collectors.Gabe and Nicola quickly realise the smartest way to catch their quarry is to join forces. Of course, they’ll have to find their way out of bed first…

Stylish and tech-obsessed, Naomi and Nathan are lovers and competitors. Nomadic freelancers in pursuit of sensation and depravity in the social media age, they encounter each other only in airport hotels and browser windows.Naomi is drawn to the headlines surrounding Célestine and Aristide Arosteguy, Marxist philosophers and sexual libertines. Célestine has been found dead and mutilated in her Paris apartment. Aristide, suspected of the killing, has disappeared. Her interest aroused, Naomi sets off in search of the truth about the disturbing mystery.Nathan, meanwhile, is in Budapest photographing the work of a controversial surgeon. But after sleeping with one of his subjects, Nathan contracts a rare STD called Roiphe’s. Determined to meet the doctor who identified the disease, Nathan comes across Roiphe’s daughter, a young woman whose bizarre behaviour masks a devastating secret.These parallel narratives become entwined in a gripping, dreamlike plot that involves 3-D printing, North Korea, the Cannes Film Festival, cancer, and, in an incredible number of varieties, sex. “Consumed” is an exuberant, provocative debut novel from one of the world’s leading film directors.