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The Havana Room

By Colin Harrison

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| Paperback | 9780747574200

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From the author of Afterburn, a major new thriller about a down-and-out lawyer who takes on a case that proves deadly

The Havana Room is the tale of a man who falls from the heights of power and wealth in New York, and finds himself in a dangerous and potentially lethal sContinue

From the author of Afterburn, a major new thriller about a down-and-out lawyer who takes on a case that proves deadly

The Havana Room is the tale of a man who falls from the heights of power and wealth in New York, and finds himself in a dangerous and potentially lethal state of affairs.
Bill Wyeth is a successful real estate attorney in his late thirties with a wife and son, who, by the merest chance, loses everything: family, job, status. Unmoored and alone, Wyeth drifts toward the city’s darker corners. Restoration seems unlikely, redemption impossible. Wyeth finds himself in an old-time Manhattan steakhouse and is intrigued by the manager, Allison Sparks—sexy, complicated, and independent in all ways. She also controls access to a private bar. This is the Havana Room, and what goes on in there, he’s told, is secret. Wyeth agrees to help Alison’s friend, Jay Rainey, in concluding a last-minute midnight real estate transaction. As soon as he sees the players and the paperwork, he knows something is wrong. Within hours, Wyeth finds himself tangled in Rainey's peculiar obsessions, which involve a Chilean businessman who feels he's been swindled, an old farmer frozen dead to a bulldozer, an outrageous black owner of a downtown hiphop club, and a fourteen-year-old English girl. Only Rainey knows the connections among these people, which are revealed when Wyeth is finally admitted to the Havana Room—where the survival of its inhabitants is most uncertain.

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  • Manhattan underground

    The Havana Room, by Colin Harrison (Bloomsbury, £6.99) The literary thriller has a mongrel pedigree. You could say it begins with Wilkie Collins, but I am not sure that he thought he was writing "literature"; better, perhaps, to start with the car be ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • The Havana Room By Colin Harrison

    Colin Harrison, author of Afterburn and Manhattan Nocturne, is at it again in this provocative story about one man's despair and his desire to maintain normalcy. The Havana Room, a delicious mystery that will keep you guessing, is perhaps Harrison's ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback
  • ISBN-10: 0747574200
  • ISBN-13: 9780747574200
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Ltd
  • Pub date: Mar 31, 2005
  • Also available as: Hardcover and Audio CD
  • In other languages: other languages Livres Français
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