From the Mark Rothko Chapel in Houston to a seedy antique store in Vladivostok; from a resort spa's special massage for those in the know with money to a serpentarium with a Malaysian Blue Cobra and the equally lethal small Coral snake from Florida; from the wealthy city of Bunhill Fields, named after a cemetery in North London where the poet William Blake was buried, to a costume ball to end all; from feasts of oysters and roasted suckling Iberian pigs to a cellar where the hosts serve their guests bar nuts in colored skulls, human and not --- these eleven inter-related short fictions establish that the old axiom that the only difference between the rich and others is that the former have more money is wrong because the rich know what to do with their money. Living well is indeed the best revenge even if it involves murder. From the author of EXIT, PURSUED BY A BEAR, a novel-in-progress, comes stories that expose the absurdity we all live with. Chuckle your way through.