基本信息出版社：Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
页码：400 页
出版日期：2006年01月
ISBN：0747577420
条形码：9780747577423
版本：Export Ed
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语
外文书名：哈瓦拿的房间
内容简介 Bill Wyeth is a successful attorney in his late thirties with a beautiful wife and son. Some would say he has it all, but, by the merest of chances, one day he loses everything: family, job, status. Unmoored and alone, Wyeth drifts toward the city's darker corners, where restoration seems unlikely, redemption impossible. At his lowest ebb, Wyeth finds himself in an old-time Manhattan steakhouse where he becomes intrigued by the manager, Allison Sparks - sexy, complicated, and independent. She controls access to a private basement bar. This is the Havana Room, and what goes on in there, he's told, is secret and available only to a privileged few. When Wyeth agrees to help a friend of Allison's in concluding a last-minute real-estate transaction he knows something is wrong. He soon finds himself sucked into a world far darker and more terrifying than anything he has previously known and he realises that he will have to unlock the deadly secrets of the Havana Room in order to survive.
作者简介 Colin Harrison is the author of the international bestseller Manhattan Nocturne and Afterburn. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
编辑推荐 Amazon.co.uk Review
In the prime of his successful, happy existence attorney Bill Wyeth suffers a ghastly tragedy that he might have prevented. It robs him of everything and everyone he values--his family, home, wealth and career. His subsequent slide into oblivion is arrested by Allison Sparks, a restaurateur who involves him in a complicated real estate transaction on behalf of her lover, the owner of a valuable parcel of land on Long Island. The circumstances of the last-minute deal are unusual enough to set off warning bells in Wyeth's mind, but he agrees to help Jay Rainey pull it off in exchange for access to the Havana Room, a private club in the basement of Allison's restaurant, whose mysterious members and their activities have long intrigued him.
Handling a complicated plot with consummate ease, maintaining a high level of dramatic tension during a brilliantly paced narrative and creating a complex cast of unusual minor characters as well as a wholly believable, sympathetic protagonist, Colin Harrison has written a riveting novel that grabs the reader from the beginning and doesn't let go. The Havana Room is a terrific, original, engrossing read by a masterful writer. --Jane Adams, Amazon.com --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Review
'A Tom Wolfe-worthy social parody of one man's fall from corporate grace Harrison is a cinematic writer, and the combination of his fast-paced plotting and graphic imagery can give The Havana Room an almost comic-book feel - and I mean that in the best sense' New York Times 'The clever mix of danger and emotion never lets the reader off the hook Compelling and suspenseful, this is entertainment with a wicked edge' Maxim Jakubowski, Guardian 'It just gets better as it goes along, involving a trip from prosperity to almost total wipe-out, and the bounce- back. But what is worth it? Read it and see. Highly recommended' Independent on Sunday 'A great read, an elegantly crafted thriller you won't want to put down' Washington Post Book World
Maxim Jakubowski, Guardian
‘The clever mix of danger and emotion never lets the reader off the hook … Compelling and suspenseful’ --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Independent on Sunday
‘It just gets better as it goes along ... Highly recommended’ --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Washington Post
‘A great read, an elegantly crafted thriller you won’t want to put down’ --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Entertainment Weekly
‘The class act of the urban thriller … Come on, are you in the bookstore yet?’ --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.