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The Havana Room
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Synopsis
Bill, an attorney, loses everything; his family and job. He drifts, and finds himself in a steakhouse, where the manager, Allison, controls access to the mysterious Havana room. After helping in a real-estate deal he finds himself in danger, to survive he must discover the Havana room's secret.
Amazon.co.uk Review
In the prime of his successful, happy existence attorney Bill Wyeth suffers a ghastly tragedy that he might have prevented. It robs him of everything and everyone he values--his family, home, wealth and career. His subsequent slide into oblivion is arrested by Allison Sparks, a restaurateur who involves him in a complicated real estate transaction on behalf of her lover, the owner of a valuable parcel of land on Long Island. The circumstances of the last-minute deal are unusual enough to set off warning bells in Wyeth's mind, but he agrees to help Jay Rainey pull it off in exchange for access to the Havana Room, a private club in the basement of Allison's restaurant, whose mysterious members and their activities have long intrigued him.
Handling a complicated plot with consummate ease, maintaining a high level of dramatic tension during a brilliantly paced narrative and creating a complex cast of unusual minor characters as well as a wholly believable, sympathetic protagonist, Colin Harrison has written a riveting novel that grabs the reader from the beginning and doesn't let go. The Havana Room is a terrific, original, engrossing read by a masterful writer. --Jane Adams
Bill, an attorney, loses everything; his family and job. He drifts, and finds himself in a steakhouse, where the manager, Allison, controls access to the mysterious Havana room. After helping in a real-estate deal he finds himself in danger, to survive he must discover the Havana room's secret.
Amazon.co.uk Review
In the prime of his successful, happy existence attorney Bill Wyeth suffers a ghastly tragedy that he might have prevented. It robs him of everything and everyone he values--his family, home, wealth and career. His subsequent slide into oblivion is arrested by Allison Sparks, a restaurateur who involves him in a complicated real estate transaction on behalf of her lover, the owner of a valuable parcel of land on Long Island. The circumstances of the last-minute deal are unusual enough to set off warning bells in Wyeth's mind, but he agrees to help Jay Rainey pull it off in exchange for access to the Havana Room, a private club in the basement of Allison's restaurant, whose mysterious members and their activities have long intrigued him.
Handling a complicated plot with consummate ease, maintaining a high level of dramatic tension during a brilliantly paced narrative and creating a complex cast of unusual minor characters as well as a wholly believable, sympathetic protagonist, Colin Harrison has written a riveting novel that grabs the reader from the beginning and doesn't let go. The Havana Room is a terrific, original, engrossing read by a masterful writer. --Jane Adams
Absolutely cracking! Gripped me throughout.
Utterly enjoyable and a thousand miles better than any Grisham.
Interestingly, there is an amazing description of the history of Manhatten in here too. It's on p118-121, and it blew me away. It gathers pace and overwhelms in the same way as the city itself has.
Utterly enjoyable and a thousand miles better than any Grisham.
Interestingly, there is an amazing description of the history of Manhatten in here too. It's on p118-121, and it blew me away. It gathers pace and overwhelms in the same way as the city itself has.
Journal Entry 3 by bandaids from Southampton, Hampshire United Kingdom on Saturday, December 17, 2005
Passed to a friend.
