by Colin Harrison · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782714440846
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«Havana Room» is the crime novel by Colin Harrison, published by Belfond in hardback (451 pages, in French).
Bill Wyeth, a Manhattan lawyer who has lost everything, wanders through a nocturnal and secret New York. In his usual restaurant, Wyeth discovers the private club Havana Room. Jay Rainey commissions Wyeth to carry out a real estate transaction before midnight; the assignment drags the lawyer into a spiral of power, money and death.
French translation by Oristelle Bonis; original title: The Havana Room. Shortlisted for the Hammett Prize in 2004.
For readers of crime fiction and suspense seeking an urban tale with a nocturnal atmosphere and a plot of power.
Colin Harrison is an American novelist and editor. Harrison is the author of eight novels: Break and Enter (1990), Bodies Electric (1993), Manhattan Nocturne (1996), Afterburn (2000), The Havana Room (2004), The Finder (2008), Risk (2009), which was first published as a fifteen-part serial in The New York Times magazine in 2008, and You Belong to Me, published in June 2017. His books have been published in a dozen countries and four have been selected as Notable Books by The New York Times Book Review. The Finder was a finalist for the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the 2009 Dashiell Hammett Award. All are atmospheric novels of violence, sex, and suspense that explore the underside of city life, most particularly in New York. Although his novels invariably involve the money and power that is concentrated in Manhattan, his stories usually snake through the boroughs outside Manhattan as well, in particular through Brooklyn, which has served as a setting for scenes in Bodies Electric, Manhattan Nocturne, The Finder and Risk (Canarsie). A movie version of Manhattan Nocturne, directed and written by Brian DeCubellis and titled Manhattan Night, was released by Lionsgate in May 2016. The movie stars Adrien Brody, Yvonne Strahovski, Campbell Scott, Jennifer Beals, and others.
