基本信息出版社：St. Martin's Paperbacks
页码：416 页
出版日期：2004年02月
ISBN：031299303X
International Standard Book Number：031299303X
条形码：9780312993030
EAN：9780312993030
装帧：简装
正文语种：英语
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Manhattan tabloid reported Porter Wren has an appetite for the city's dirtiest scandals. On the beat, he sells, murder, tragedy, and anything that passed for the truth. At home, he's happily married with two kids. Then one clandestine night, he risks everything he has on the seduction of a stranger...
Her name is Caroline Crowley, widowed by the unsolved murder of her late husband--a man with a nasty little hobby. Caroline has the vidoes to prove it. A ruthless billionaire who indulged in her husband's sordid games wants the evidence buried--along with anyone who has it.
But the enigmatic Caroline wants more than Porter's help. She knows he can't refuse. He's already crossed the line--and on the run in an escalating nightmare of blackmail, deception, and sexual obsession. For Porter, the only way out is murder--if the truth doesn't kill him first.
作者简介 Colin Harrison is the deputy editor of Harper's Magazine and the author of Afterburn, Break and Enter, Bodies Electric, and Manhattan Nocturne. He and his wife, Kathryn Harrison, live in Brooklyn.
媒体推荐 A white-knuckle ride. --People
"Marvelous." --Publishers Weekly
"You're trapped by page two...this is the work of a powerful writer...with a powerful story."
-The Boston Globe
"[Harrison] spares no detail of sex and violence, imbuing every phrase with a visceral punch and a sardonic tone." -Chicago Tribune
" A smart, entertaining novel." --The Washington Post Book World
"Manhattan Nocturne soars."--The New York Times Book Review
"Truly thrilling."-Houston Chronicle
"One of the year's best."-Rocky Mountain News
"Mr. Harrison...has produced a thriller that seems to want to be equal parts of Raymond Chandler, William Styron and Tom Wolfe...These corollary aspirations generate some of the greatest pleasures in Mr. Harrison's novel, so that the same narrative that impresses us with its top-to-bottom knowledge of New York City fauna is also illuminating about the quiet acts of omission that irrevocably damage a marriage."-Entertainment Weekly
"With the narrative drive of a hurtling subway express, Harrison...plunges readers into a scary subterranean world in which the only comfort comes from the neon flashes of his prose."--People
"Marvelous...[Harrison's] prose brims with the anguish and joy, the guilt and regret of recklessness, of hundred's of the city's voices."-Publishers Weekly
"Mercilessly observed and heartbreakingly plotted, Manhattan Nocturne is totally enjoyable on all levels-the best piece of postmodern noir since James Ellroy's The Big Nowhere."
-David Foster Wallace
"A great, roaring story of power, lust, greed, and a very human folly that characterizes our preposterous millennium-told with compassion, intelligence, and striking human insight."
-Mary Gaitskill
"Beautifully written and flawlessly structured. Manhattan Nocturne is compulsive reading."
-Patrick McGrath
"Something new is in the air; Colin Harrison has captured the subtle changes in the whole moral compass of America in this spellbinding thriller. Set deep in the heart of New York City's darkness, Manhattan Nocturne introduces one of the great femme fatales in modern literature. This is the best novel I've read in a long time."-Thom Jones
"Vivid...suspenseful...disturbing...Manhattan Nocturne is a fine novel, as notable for its richness of descriptions as its gripping suspense."-BookPage
"A brooding, erotic mystery thriller. Harrison offers up wonderful, stirring meditations of family, sex, love, and death."-Detroit Free Press
-- Review
编辑推荐 "A white-knuckle ride." --People
"Marvelous." --Publishers Weekly
"You're trapped by page two...this is the work of a powerful writer...with a powerful story."
-The Boston Globe
"[Harrison] spares no detail of sex and violence, imbuing every phrase with a visceral punch and a sardonic tone." -Chicago Tribune
" A smart, entertaining novel." --The Washington Post Book World
"Manhattan Nocturne soars."--The New York Times Book Review
"Truly thrilling."-Houston Chronicle
"One of the year's best."-Rocky Mountain News
"Mr. Harrison...has produced a thriller that seems to want to be equal parts of Raymond Chandler, William Styron and Tom Wolfe...These corollary aspirations generate some of the greatest pleasures in Mr. Harrison's novel, so that the same narrative that impresses us with its top-to-bottom knowledge of New York City fauna is also illuminating about the quiet acts of omission that irrevocably damage a marriage."-Entertainment Weekly
"With the narrative drive of a hurtling subway express, Harrison...plunges readers into a scary subterranean world in which the only comfort comes from the neon flashes of his prose."--People
"Marvelous...[Harrison's] prose brims with the anguish and joy, the guilt and regret of recklessness, of hundred's of the city's voices."-Publishers Weekly
"Mercilessly observed and heartbreakingly plotted, Manhattan Nocturne is totally enjoyable on all levels-the best piece of postmodern noir since James Ellroy's The Big Nowhere."
-David Foster Wallace
"A great, roaring story of power, lust, greed, and a very human folly that characterizes our preposterous millennium-told with compassion, intelligence, and striking human insight."
-Mary Gaitskill
"Beautifully written and flawlessly structured. Manhattan Nocturne is compulsive reading."
-Patrick McGrath
"Something new is in the air; Colin Harrison has captured the subtle changes in the whole moral compass of America in this spellbinding thriller. Set deep in the heart of New York City's darkness, Manhattan Nocturne introduces one of the great femme fatales in modern literature. This is the best novel I've read in a long time."-Thom Jones
"Vivid...suspenseful...disturbing...Manhattan Nocturne is a fine novel, as notable for its richness of descriptions as its gripping suspense."-BookPage
"A brooding, erotic mystery thriller. Harrison offers up wonderful, stirring meditations of family, sex, love, and death."-Detroit Free Press
专业书评 From the Back Cover
In The Dead Of Night
Manhattan tabloid reporter Porter Wren has an appetite for the city's dirtiest scandals. On the beat, he sells murder, tragedy, and anything that passes for the truth. At home, he's happily married with two kids. Then one clandestine night, he risks everything he has on the seduction of a stranger...
While The City Sleeps
Her name is Caroline Crowley, widowed by the unsolved murder of her late husband-a man with a nasty little hobby. Caroline has the videos to prove it. A ruthless billionaire who indulged in her husband's sordid games wants the evidence buried-along with anyone who has it.
Anything Is Possible
But the enigmatic Caroline wants more than Porter's help. She knows he can't refuse. He's already crossed the line-and on the run in an escalating nightmare of blackmail, deception, and sexual obsession. For Porter, the only way out is murder-if the truth doesn't kill him first.