At Ruby’s

by Frank De Laney (Author)

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  Paperback
  2002

  $3.49

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  Hardcover
  2001

  $3.49

  Frank Delaney's 'Newman' novels have been described as a 'flammable mixture of John Fowles and Ian McEwan'. They are absorbing, passionate and riven with tension, with plots as sharp as tomorrow's headlines. In At Ruby's, the wealthy and fashionable architect Nicholas Newman is again embroiled against his will in events beyond his control. The story opens in the boardroom of a company of which he is a director. He looks on as the chairman, Richard Strafe, a charismatic, aggressive man, ruthlessly faces down a mysterious challenge from another director. That night violence breaks loose, and though Newman tries to avoid being drawn into it, he fails. At the same time, his own office - and home - erupt when he agrees to design the new nightclub for the celebrated Belgravia madam, Ruby Hamer. He has known Ruby from his former, wilder life, and she feels an entitlement to Newman which he now regrets. These difficulties soon meet as Strafe and Ruby, in different ways, threaten Newman's new and fragile marriage. The novel twists and turns to the very last paragraph as Newman, the man who has everything except contentment, tries to resolve the ambiguities of his life by facing the moral horrors of the past.