There's no doubt about it: Colin Harrison is a master storyteller. Critics and readers love his gripping, dark books. It's hard not to get sucked into his world.Entertainment Weeklycalls him the class act of the urban thriller, Michiko Kakutani ofThe New York Timeslauds him as a master of mood and atmosphere, andPublishers Weeklycrows that Harrison writes like an angel.
Now, the author ofThe Havana Room,Afterburn, andManhattan Nocturneraises the stakes with an electrifying new thriller,The Finder. Harrison spins the story of a young, beautiful, secretive Chinese woman, Jin-Li, who gets involved in a brilliant scheme to steal valuable information from corporations in New York City. When the plan is discovered by powerful New Yorkers who stand to lose enormous sums of money, Jin-Li goes on the run. Meanwhile, her former lover, Ray Grant, a man who was out of the country for years but who has recently returned, is caught up in the search for her. Ray has not been forthcoming to Jin-Li about why he left New York or what he was doing overseas, but his training and strengths will be put to the ultimate test against those who are unmerciful in their desire to regain a fortune lost. Ray is going to have to find Jin-Li, and he is going to have to find her fast.
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Colin Harrisonis the author of the novels
Break and Enter,
Bodies Electric,
Manhattan Nocturne,
Afterburn,
The Havana Room,
The Finder, and
Risk. His novel
Manhattan Nocturnewas filmed as Manhattan Night in ls: