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    The Havana Room: A Novel
    The Havana Room: A Novel
    The Havana Room: A Novel
    Audiobook (abridged)5 hours

    The Havana Room: A Novel

    Written by Colin Harrison

    Narrated by Henry Leyva

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    From the author of Afterburn, a major new thriller about a down-and-out lawyer who takes on a case that proves deadly.

    The Havana Room is the tale of a man who falls from the heights of power and wealth in New York, and finds himself in a dangerous and potentially lethal state of affairs.

    Bill Wyeth is a successful real estate attorney in his late thirties with a wife and son, who, by the merest chance, loses everything: family, job, status. Unmoored and alone, Wyeth drifts toward the city's darker corners. Restoration seems unlikely, redemption impossible. Wyeth finds himself in an old-time Manhattan steakhouse and is intrigued by the manager, Allison Sparks—sexy, complicated, and independent in all ways. She also controls access to a private bar. This is the Havana Room, and what goes on in there, he's told, is secret. Wyeth agrees to help Alison's friend, Jay Rainey, in concluding a last-minute midnight real estate transaction. As soon as he sees the players and the paperwork, he knows something is wrong. Within hours, Wyeth finds himself tangled in Rainey's peculiar obsessions, which involve a Chilean businessman who feels he's been swindled, an old farmer frozen dead to a bulldozer, an outrageous black owner of a downtown hiphop club, and a fourteen-year-old English girl. Only Rainey knows the connections among these people, which are revealed when Wyeth is finally admitted to the Havana Room—where the survival of its inhabitants is most uncertain.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateJan 1, 2004
    ISBN9781593973773
    Author

    Colin Harrison

    Colin Harrison is the author of the novels You Belong to Me, Break and Enter, Bodies Electric, Manhattan Nocturne, Afterburn, The Havana Room, The Finder, and Risk. He serves as the editor in chief at Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. A graduate of Haverford College and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he is married to the writer Kathryn Harrison and lives in Brooklyn, New York, and Jamesport, Long Island.

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    • 3/5
      Bat shit crazy "legal thriller" reminiscent of the movie "After Hours", without the dark humor. Despite enormous plot holes, maguffins and cardboard cutout ethnic stereotypes (INscrutable Chinamen! Oversexed Negros!), it's an oddly enjoyable page turner. Go figure.
    • 4/5
      Great Law suspense thriller is how I would describe the book. Serious page turner have burnt a few candles reading this one. Had a a special appeal to me as a father of a son in sympathy of what the character had to endure.