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.