VN.045-陳雅漫VICKY

　　一对老友在公路旅行中被困沙漠，屡次求助无门酷暑难挡使他们暴力相向。

　　白天，他们是隐形的——豪华酒店的服务员、女招待和调酒师。到了晚上，他们就是劫车者，一群熟练的司机，在路上追踪和抢劫富有的客户。当他们计划最终的抢劫时，酒店经理雇佣了一名无情的杀手，不惜一切代价阻止他们。随着危险的临近，诺拉、佐伊、史蒂夫和普雷斯顿能取得迄今为止最大的成绩吗？

　　故事发生在1921年的西班牙，一艘蒸汽船载着260名西班牙移民驶往美国，他们满心期待在那里能够开始他们崭新的人生。不幸的人，一场船难袭击了这群追梦者，他们所乘坐的蒸汽船载西班牙加利西亚海岸附近的一座小岛旁沉没了。幸运的是，岛上生活的三个女人发现了这批遇难者，她们热情的给予了帮助，最终，50名乘客得到了救助，保住了性命，这三个女人也因此名声远扬，被视为英雄。　　一名阿根廷记者闻讯来到了这座小岛，想要将这件事情写成报道，可是，随着他调查的深入，记者发现很多事情都和他所听说的不符，不仅如此，他还开始怀疑，或许蒸汽船的沉没从一开始就不是一场意外。

　　The main character is Dr. Max Holst, a successful neurosurgeon. One day an intense little man named Steinmetz shows up, who has the real ability to create objects out of thin air, using only his mind. As no one believes him at first, he is held at a ward for mental patients, but manifests the key to his door and escapes. As he has a special interest in Dr. Holst, Steinmetz subsequently invites Holst to his large mansion, which is full of expensive paintings and sculptures, and proves to him that he can in fact materialise objects. Steinmetz’s abilities are evolving by leaps and bounds, and is progressing from being able to create objects only to being able to create living things. His ultimate ambition is to be able to create a human being. He tells Dr. Holst that if he will only perform a certain brain operation on him, Steinmetz will become able to attain his goal. He’s got all the necessary equipment set up in his basement. Dr. Holst, however, is too spooked by the whole thing to agree to this mad scheme, and refuses. Steinmetz then sets about manipulating Holst’s life, to pressure him into performing the operation. By then Steinmetz has become able to create a temporary human being, and in the hope that he can perhaps make his own creation perform the operation, he manifests a doppelganger of Dr. Holst. This double proceeds to take over Dr. Holst’s life, creating chaos for him professionally and personally. And then Dr. Holst starts fighting back. The ending has the dual virtue of being both unexpected and satisfying.