Afterburn
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Afterburn

A Novel

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Afterburn

A Novel

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About This Book

A high-voltage international thriller about a millionaire businessman catapulted into a world of criminal intrigue, sexual obsession, extortion, and death.Charlie Ravich is a survivor whose brutal experience as a POW in Vietnam has more than prepared him for the cutthroat world of global commerce. Now a wealthy Upper East Side executive in his late fifties, Charlie has only one problem: his family is dying out. His wife teeters on the edge of Alzheimer's; their son has succumbed to leukemia; and their daughter, Julia, is unable to bear a child. Charlie is being trumped by time.Enter Christina, a beguiling Columbia University dropout-intelligent, selectively dishonest, filled with desire. Her affair with Rick Bocca, a member of a big-time truck-theft ring run by mobster Tony V., has landed her in prison. After four years in Bedford Hills, she is suddenly released by the Manhattan D.A.'s office-perhaps because she is innocent, perhaps not.
Warned by a detective that Christina is being set up by Tony V., Rick begins a desperate, bungled search to warn Christina, who has lied her way into the high-flying world of Charlie Ravich. But her past catches up with her, and Rick's catches up with him, setting off a harrowing chain of betrayals that leaves only one person with any hope of a future.At once smart, sexy, and graphically violent, Afterburn spans the mean streets of New York's underworld and Hong Kong's corridors of high finance, and stands as Colin Harrison's most commercial work yet

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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Year
2007
ISBN
9781429922838
Topic
Literatur
Subtopic
Kriminal- & Mysterienliteratur

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Epigraph
  4. PROLOGUE - TAKHLI AIR FORCE BASE, THAILAND
  5. CHINA CLUB, HONG KONG - SEPTEMBER 7, 1999
  6. WOMEN’S CORRECTIONAL FACILITY - BEDFORD HILLS, NEW YORK
  7. ORIENT POINT, LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 7,1999
  8. 817 FIFTH AVENUE, MANHATTAN - SEPTEMBER 9, 1999
  9. 215 EAST FOURTH STREET, MANHATTAN - SEPTEMBER 9, 1999
  10. 604 CARROLL STREET, BROOKLYN - SEPTEMBER 11, 1999
  11. PARK AVENUE PARTNERS FERTILITY CLINIC - FORTY-EIGHTH STREET AND PARK AVENUE, MANHATTAN
  12. STATEN ISLAND FERRY, NEW YORK HARBOR - SEPTEMBER 14, 1999
  13. JIM-JACK BAR & RESTAURANT - BROADWAY AND BLEECKER, MANHATTAN
  14. SNYDER, WAINWRIGHT, LOVELL & PASSARO - FIFTIETH STREET AND LEXINGTON AVENUE, MANHATTAN
  15. BAR, PIERRE HOTEL - SIXTY-FIRST STREET AND FIFTH AVENUE, MANHATTAN
  16. NEAR THIRTEENTH STREET AND TENTH AVENUE, MANHATTAN - SEPTEMBER 21, 1999
  17. ROOM 527, PIERRE HOTEL - SIXTY-FIRST STREET AND FIFTH AVENUE, MANHATTAN
  18. EMERGENCY ROOM, BELLEVUE HOSPITAL - EAST TWENTY-SEVENTH STREET AND FIRST AVENUE, MANHATTAN
  19. PEACE HOTEL, SHANGHAI, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 24, 1999
  20. PIONEER HOTEL - 341 BROOME STREET, CHINATOWN, MANHATTAN
  21. VISTA DEL MAR RETIREMENT VILLAGE - PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY
  22. BROOKLYN-QUEENS EXPRESSWAY, BROOKLYN - SEPTEMBER 28, 1999
  23. M & R BAR—DINING ROOM - 264 ELIZABETH STREET, MANHATTAN
  24. NEAR THIRTEENTH STREET AND TENTH AVENUE, MANHATTAN - SEPTEMBER 28, 1999
  25. EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, CALIFORNIA - SPRING 1966
  26. 106TH STREET AND COLUMBUS AVENUE, MANHATTAN - NOVEMBER 2, 1999
  27. ALSO BY COLIN HARRISON
  28. MANHATTAN NOCTURNE - A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
  29. AFTERBURN
  30. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  31. Copyright Page