Ted Beaumont is a successful writer. His bestsellers bear the name George Stark, but this is not a pseudonym; it is his mysterious doppelganger, who has been haunting his real half from the dark depths of the subconscious since childhood. It is he who has been guiding Ted's hand against his will for so many years.

Wanting to get rid of the fruit of his own imagination, the writer arranges a funeral for his invisible reflection. But no one can get rid of their own shadow. It comes to life and begins to take revenge...

Circumstances are such that Jesse urgently needs to get his feet out of Las Vegas. This impulsive young man is not used to living by the law. He steals a car, and on the way to Los Angeles he has to shoot a policeman. As he gets closer to the city, his situation gets worse and worse. It seems that the whole world has turned against him. But, strangely enough, it is at this time that he meets a girl who makes his heart pound at a furious pace, then freeze from the sharpness of feelings. He's been waiting for this girl all his life. But now that the entire state police is after him, he has other things on his mind.

San Diego. Nathan Kane is a modest introvert who works as an assistant manager at a credit trust company. He also has a rare condition—congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis. On Christmas Eve, three robbers dressed as Santa Claus burst into the office, take a large sum of money from the safe, kill the manager and the police who arrived on the scene, and flee, taking employee Sherry, with whom Nathan has begun a romantic relationship, hostage. Upon learning that reinforcements are delayed, Kane rushes after the criminals to save the girl of his dreams.

An American professor specializing in hieroglyphics comes to Oxford to decipher a secret message, the contents of which are of interest to spies, oil sheiks, and a number of Middle Eastern leaders. He is aided by the sexy mistress of an oil tycoon with political ambitions.

A Russian train carrying nuclear missiles for destruction is partially damaged by an explosion somewhere in a remote area in southern Russia. The relevant signals are received by the nuclear center of the American White House. It soon becomes clear that the weapons are in the hands of international terrorists.

Big money doesn't come easy. Realizing this, the two bandits, Parker and Longbaugh prepared themselves very carefully. Loaded to the brim with weapons, they set about executing their diabolical plan. The first stage of the operation, the kidnapping of the victim, went smoothly. And everything would have been in perfect order, but in the way of weapons stood a certain Joe Sarno, firmly ruined the partners all plans.

A killer with no memory of his name or past is being pursued by police inspector Frank Basted. His wife Emma is looking for him, strangers are after him, and he tries to make sense of what's going on through scraps of memory.

John Grant works as a teacher in a remote province. Finally getting his long-awaited vacation, he passes through the small town of Bundeyabbe on his way to Sydney. What was supposed to be a one-time innocent overnight stay turns into a journey first through the seedy parts of town, and then into a protracted immersion in provincial madness with drunken revelry, robbery, and kangaroo hunting.

There are people who believe that there are only three things that make this rotten and vicious world go round - money, sex and power. Everything else, including pity, conscience and honor, has absolutely no meaning for them. These people are willing to go to great lengths in the name of their three idols. But sometimes it happens that in their desires they go too far ... Prosecutor's Office employee David Corelli investigates a monstrously brutal murder. An elderly millionaire was horribly mutilated with an axe in his luxurious villa. Investigator Corelli is the perfect person to solve such a complex crime. But there is only one small catch: no one wants this crime to be solved.....

Harlem, 1960s. Tommy Gibbs, a young enterprising dark-skinned gangster, tramples his way into the mafia upper reaches of New York. Naturally, this road is not lined with flowers, but with the corpses of the Italian clan, whose place Tommy took. Having taken possession of accounting books containing tons of dirt, he made himself virtually untouchable. But the demand for these books is growing.