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Book SynopsisFrom the co-creator of the HBO series Game of Thrones and the Sunday Times bestselling author of CITY OF THIEVES, this character-driven crime novel is a spellbinding portrait of three friends confronting the consequences of their carefree youth on the streets of New York.
Trade ReviewThis character-driven crime novel is a spellbinding portrait of three friends confronting the consequences of their carefree youth on the streets of New York. * From the Publisher's Description *
Acerbically captivating first novel . . . Benioff creates a pungent, funny urban tableau full of shrewd operators and unfulfilled desires *
New York Times *
As unusual as it is well wrought: it resonates with a Whitmanesque sense of the city's possibilities and unsatisfied longings *
New Yorker *
David Benioff's headlong suspense novel is a deceptively simple chronicle of [Monty's] final day of freedom . . . Working in a novelistic form of "real time", Benioff shows a knack for critiquing his genre while revitalising its cliches . . . Instead of yielding mere irony, the author, in his first novel, achieves both pathos and excitement *
Entertainment Weekly *
Brilliantly conceived, this gripping crime drama boasts dead-on dialogue, chiaroscuro portraits of New York's social strata and an inescapable crescendo of tension. Monty's solution to his agonising dilemmas will shock even hardened suspense lovers *
Publishers Weekly *
