The Merchant of Mobasa; The Man Who Killed Stalin's Wife; Based on a True Story

Set in post-WWII Africa, Polynesia, and Hollywood, the three novellas that make up Based on a True Story reveal the roots of contemporary life in a world at war with itself. These novellas are reminiscent of work by Steve Stern and Philip Roth. Hesh Kestin is a recovering foreign correspondent who reported on local wars, global business, and exotic mayhem in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa for publications such as Forbes , Newsday , and The Jerusalem Post , and US magazines as diverse as Playboy and Inc . Cited by Media Guide for best foreign correspondence, his work has won many awards. Set on the eve of WWII in an erotically charged Africa, an intensely un-Gauguin-esque Polynesia and a Hollywood of explosive racial and gender identities, the three novellas that make up Based on a True Story reveal the roots of contemporary life in a world at war with itself. As exotically romantic as Joseph Conrad, comic as Philip Roth, magical as Steve Stern and Bernard Malamud, and as intricately compelling as any thriller, Hesh Kestin & rsquo;s tales reveal the shameless private lives of women and men caught in the violent crossfire between sensuality and power, love and fear, conscience and deliriously uncontrolled erotic abandon Trio Of Novellas Set During Post Wwii Period In Varying International Settings. The Merchant Of Mombasa -- The Man Who Kissed Stalin's Wife -- Based On A True Story. By Hesh Kestin.