Winner Stands Alone — Paulo Coelho

The Winner Stands Alone is an enthralling novel by the incomparable Paulo Coelho The story is set during the Cannes International Film Festival and the entire action plays out over 24 hours Igor is a wealthy Russian businessman His wife Ewa left him two years ago and Igor has never really come to terms with their break up especially as Ewa is now remarried to a famous fashion designer Hamid Hussein Igor is insanely jealous and when Ewa left him he told her that he would destroy whole worlds in order to get her back and he intends to keep his promise The star studded film festival acts as a backdrop to a maniacal murder spree and we are introduced to various characters along the way all of whom are desperately trying to get their big break in the shallow world of show business Gabriela a young and naive actress who is being exploited by her agent and Jasmine a troubled young Rwandan refugee working as a model The Winner Stands Alone is a gripping fast paced thriller and Coelho cleverly weaves in elements of social satire as he pokes fun at our celebrity and money obsessed culture

He is forllowing a dream of love Igor Malev has one thing on his mind his ex wife Ewa He s handsome rich and effortlessly personable but she left him for a successful fashion designer a sting he s never recovered from So he travels to the glamorous Cannes International Film Festival where they ll be appearing intent on winning her back There amid the luxury and excess of the new Superclass the ultimate winners in the hedonistic game of modern life he begins a 24 hour campaing of extraordinary violence For Igor is a man of rare intensity and cold intelligence and this is to be no ordinary reconciliation Because he made a promise to destroy whole worlds to get to his beloved And he always keeps his word Paulo Coelho s writing has inspired intrigued and entertaines many millions of people around the world With The Winner Stands Alone he has brought his remarkable gift for storytelling to the darker side of celebrity wealth and excess and how the world we live in can distort the truth in our hearts

He is forllowing a dream of love Igor Malev has one thing on his mind his ex wife Ewa He s handsome rich and effortlessly personable but she left him for a successful fashion designer a sting he s never recovered from So he travels to the glamorous Cannes International Film Festival where they ll be appearing intent on winning her back There amid the luxury and excess of the new Superclass the ultimate winners in the hedonistic game of modern life he begins a 24 hour campaing of extraordinary violence For Igor is a man of rare intensity and cold intelligence and this is to be no ordinary reconciliation Because he made a promise to destroy whole worlds to get to his beloved And he always keeps his word Paulo Coelho s writing has inspired intrigued and entertaines many millions of people around the world With The Winner Stands Alone he has brought his remarkable gift for storytelling to the darker side of celebrity wealth and excess and how the world we live in can distort the truth in our hearts

The Winner Stands Alone is the enthralling new novel by the incomparable Paulo Coelho The story is set during the Cannes International Film Festival and the entire action plays out over 24 hours Igor is a wealthy Russian businessman His wife Ewa left him two years ago and Igor has never really come to terms with their break up especially as Ewa is now remarried to a famous fashion designer Hamid Hussein Igor is insanely jealous and when Ewa left him he told her that he would destroy whole worlds in order to get her back and he intends to keep his promise Igor has followed Ewa and her new husband to Cannes and his plan is to cause as much violence and destruction as possible until Ewa realises how much he loves her and comes back to him Ewa loved Igor but she was absolutely terrified of him She knows that Igor has killed people in the past when he was a soldier but she also knows a dark secret that he once cold bloodedly murdered a beggar who was bothering them in a restaurant Igor is clearly unhinged and he will stop at nothing to regain her love and so he goes on a ruthless killing spree until he tracks down Ewa The star studded film festival acts as a backdrop to Igor s maniacal murdering spree and we are ntroduced to various characters along the way all of whom are desperately trying to get their big break in the shallow world of show business Gabriela a young and naive actress who is being exploited by her agent and Jasmine a troubled young Rwandan refugee working as a model The Winner Stands Alone is a gripping fast paced thriller and Coelho cleverly weaves in elements of social satire poking fun at our celebrity and money obsessed culture