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Harrison's fourth thriller follows on from the acclaim bestowed on Break and Enter, Bodies Electric and Manhattan Nocturne, and continues the vein of modern noir established in those books: a tough man vulnerable only to the charms of a tougher femme fatale, a world where the sex is lubricious, the violence shocking and visceral, and the lure of power and money ubiquitous.
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Afterburn follows the fatal intertwining of three lives: Charlie Ravich, a Vietnam vet turned multimillionaire businessman, who is seeking a woman to bear the male heir; Christina Welles, fresh out of prison and relying on her high intelligence to evade the mob who have engineered her release; and Rick Bocca, Christina's ex-lover, who walked away while she was imprisoned and now is trying to save her. Each of them, true to the genre, has a past that hangs over them with an almost fatalistic aura of incipient tragedy.
Harrison has constructed a brutally efficient and vivid thriller, but what stands out most are the passages where detailed research dovetails with the author's noir- ish imagination: the account of Charlie's capture and torture in Vietnam, the machinations of high-level business negotiations, the sickeningly inventive interrogation techniques of a medically inclined mobster.
The book's epigraph quotes Jean-Paul Sartre on the psychology of torture: equally pertinent would have been Sartre's observation that we are defined ultimately by our actions. The three main characters in Afterburn are all faced with their own "moment of truth"--or Sartre's famous quote that "Hell is other people". In the corrupt inferno of Harrison's New York, that would be all too apt. --Burhan Tufail
'A relentless plot, a fascinating set of characters under pressure, and high-octane drama. An impeccably literate thriller' GUARDIAN 'A brilliantly imagined book; immaculately organised; fully fleshed; dark as night' LITERARY REVIEW
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- PublisherBloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0747546177
- ISBN 13 9780747546177
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages448
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