The famous American film actor Kirk Douglas has recently been successfully working in the field of melodrama. His novels “Dance with the Devil” and “The Gift” were immediately noted by both readers and critics. His third novel, Last Tango in Brooklyn, is a variation on Bernardo Bertolucci's famous film Last Tango in Paris, starring Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider. Unlike Bertolucci's film, Douglas's novel takes place in modern New York, but the intensity of passions is just as high, and the twists and turns of the love affair keep the reader in suspense until the very last page.