When Dominic Peach is sent to the former Soviet republic of Belugastan to save an endangered wild sheep he is not pleased. And he'd hoped, by rigging their database to make sheep his one responsibility, that he'd got SOS sewn up. But it turns out Belugastan is more fun than he'd thought.

Mickey Defoe is one of life's natural born losers. So, when foxy Sandy Browne, second-runner up on "Big Sister", a reality TV competition, takes an interest in him and his work as a sculptor, he's flattered. It seems too good to be true and it is: Sandy is just using him.

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Patti loves stealing cars, and deciding it's time for a change, she steals one last car. But she couldn't have chosen worse. This one belongs to the shady Winston, and the package on the seat is worth millions, a hefty jail sentence and the wrath of the Russian Mafia if he can't find her first.