By: Colin Harrison Publisher: Picador Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Label: Picador Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 448 Publication Date: April 17, 2007 Release Date: April 17, 2007
Charlie Ravich is an international corporate tycoon, a husband and father on the hard side of fifty, and a restless soul in search of immortality. When Christina Welles, a prison parolee, well-schooled in the art of manipulation, walks into his life, Charlie thinks he just might have found what he's looking for. As she tries to outrun her past, and he to understand his future, two obsessions are about to be indulged.
Good story line Although it is obvious fairly early on where this story is headed, the links and connections provide intrigue. Although Very much told from a male perspective, the "paroled" female lead is one step ahead of all the other characters. The heir craving business man, owner of a multimillion dollar company seems to have one employee in the US. Listened to BOT so unable to skip over the excruciating (torture) and repetitious (counting diapers) sections which detracted somewhat from the story line.
Dark, controlled fiction at it's best Unbelievably good. The tale describes three main characters in late 90's NYC, all exceedingly likable and flawed, then places them in such excruciating situations that I had to put the book down several times, only to grab it back up greedily five minutes later. Every page is a knife-edge and large parts of this book are unequalled by any other author in this genre. This skilled author knows exactly what he's doing, and it's criminal that he is not as well-known as Andre Dubus III. Don't read another word about this thriller. Buy it and pass it on and be grateful we have Harrison.
An eye opening shocker; hands down one of the best! If you are middle-aged, or more, reasonably successful, or have lot's of money in the bank
BEWARE:
...the young, sexy girls that suddenly "appear" in your life are a lot more dangerous than you can (or ever need) to handle...
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