Heart Fever
Laerhoven, Bob Van / Faktorovich, Anna![Heart Fever](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/243/24339505/CHSBZCOP0324339505.jpg)
After his much-acclaimed short story collection Dangerous Obsessions, which had war as a common background, Belgian/Flemish author Van Laerhoven surprises again with five stories that shed a piercing light on our most self-destructive impulses. A steroid-spiked Syrian mercenary of Bashar-al-Assad is determined to become a "martyr, " after the loss of his right arm by "friendly fire." A retired London tube-driver becomes obsessed by his desire ...