Let me start with a brief tangent. I literally happened onto this book by wandering the aisles of my local Barnes & Noble. If bookstores go away because of the internet then I will eventually run out of stuff to read because there will be no aisles to brows. And I always thought it was undiluted ...
Here are 10 reasons to put Colin Harrison’s literary thriller on your reading list:1. The Voice – A cross between Dashiell Hammett hardboiled and Upton Sinclair social commentary. Mr. Harrison has the literary virtuosity to pull it off. You’d have to go a long way to find a writer with a greate...
A supremely satisfying thriller. I was hooked after about 15 pages, and then couldn't put it down.Bill Wyeth is a NYC lawyer. Very successful. Very rich. Living the high life with his wife and son. One night, when Bill's son, Timothy, is having some boys over to spend the night, the incompre...
Murder! Sex! Torture! International Finance! Wall Street Shenanigans! Lesbian Jail Scenes! Police corruption! A one-armed man! No, it's not the latest Tarantino blockbuster, but this book gave me whiplash as it screeched around a plot and the world (mostly centered in NYC though). This was my ...
They'd lurched along some kind of avenue in Brooklyn—she could tell by the stop-and-go traffic, the honking and sirens—then made a turnoff across bumpy ground and then she heard a truck engine and smelled shit, a cosmic enveloping gust of it. Like the van was tunneling through a mountain of the s...
Office workers hurried toward the subways and commuter trains, and nearby, handcuffed defendants drained out of the courtrooms and through a special door into the gray Philadelphia Prisons Transport bus. They were the lucky ones. The bus went to the county prison, which housed convicts whose mini...