Slippery figures in anomalous situations - ghosts, spies, bodyguards, criminals- haunt these stories by Javier Mar?as: the characters come bearing their strange and special secrets, and never leave our minds. In one story, a man obsessed with his much younger lover endlessly videotapes her every move, and then confides his surprising plans for her; in another, a ghost can't stop resigning from his job. Masterfully, Mar?as manages in a small space...