Jin Li, the young, beautiful manager of a Manhattan office-cleaning firm, is on the run. Two Mexican girls on her payroll have just been buried in Brooklyn under a tonne of stinking sewage that she knows was meant for her - she has been ''disposing of'' valuable information from top corporations in the city for years, and now the people she has stolen from are out for revenge. Meanwhile, corporate schmoozer Tom Reilly is treating a pair of potential investors to a Yankees game when he receives a threatening letter claiming to know about ''problems'' at Good Pharma pharmaceuticals. On the other side of town, mysterious Ray Grant, Jin Li''s former lover, is tracked down by her ruthless brother Chen and offered an impossible choice: help Chen find Jin Li, or place his own father in danger. As the hunt for Jin Li gathers pace, the stakes are high on all sides. Will Ray find her before her enemies do? Can Chen and his Shanghai ''associates'' be trusted to heep their word? And what is the secret that Ray''s father has been hiding that could affect them all?In this sizzling story of manipulation and revenge, Colin Harrison, author of The Havana Room, Afterburn and Manhattan Nocture, will keep you guessing - and breathless - until the very last page.
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd.
ISBN: 9780747595434
Idioma: Inglés
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Fecha de lanzamiento: 11/02/2008
Año de edición: 2008
Plaza de edición: London
Especificaciones del producto
Escrito por Colin Harrison
Colin Harrison (1960) es un escritor y editor norteamericano. Fue redactor de Harper’s Magazine entre 1989 y 2001, lo que le permitió trabajar con autores como David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Franzen, Jane Smiley, Russell Banks, William H. Gass, David Guterson o Joyce Carol Oates. A la vez, dio a luz sus primeras obras: Break and Enter (1990) y Bodies Electric (1993), dos thrillers impactantes por su crudeza y modernidad. Pero fue Manhattan Nocturne, publicada en 1996, la novela que supuso su salto a la gran palestra. A esta le seguirían Afterburn (2000), Havana Room (2004, disponible en Navona_Ineludibles) o, más recientemente, Un mapa para un crimen (2017, Navona 2020). Paralelamente ha dado clases en el programa de escritura y ha colaborado también en el MFA de la Universidad de Columbia. Desde 2001 es editor en Scribner. Sus libros han sido traducidos a más de una docena de lenguas y cuatro de ellos han sido destacados en las listas del New York Times Book Review.