by Colin Harrison (Author)
Bill Wyeth is a successful attorney in his late thirties with a beautiful wife and son, who, by the merest chance, 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 in all ways. 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 midnight 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.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 400
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 19 Apr 2004
ISBN 10: 0747571864
ISBN 13: 9780747571865
Book Overview: The pace of John Grisham, the punch of Tom Wolfe and the intrigue of CHINATOWN 'A Hitchcock for the nineties' Guardian High profile relaunch of Colin Harrison backlist to coincide with publication