A pulse-pounding novel of class, privilege, sex, and murder, from the New York Times bestselling author of Two Nights in Lisbon and The Expats.
Chicky
Diaz is everyone’s favorite doorman at the Bohemia, the most famous
apartment house in the world, home of celebrities, financiers, and New
York’s cultural elite.
Up in the penthouse, Emily Longworth has
the perfect-looking everything, all except her husband, whom she’d
quietly loathed even before the recent revelations about where all the
money comes from. But his wealth is immense, their prenup is iron-clad,
and Emily can’t bring herself to leave him. Yet.
And downstairs
in 2a, Julian Sonnenberg—who has carved himself a successful niche in
the art world, and led a a good half-century of a full and satisfying,
cosmopolitan life—has just received a devastating phone call that does
nothing at all to alleviate his sense that, probably for better and
worse, he has aged out and he’s just not that useful to anyone any more.
Meanwhile,
gathered in the Bohemia’s bowels, the building’s almost entirely Black
and Hispanic, working-class staff is taking in the news that that just a
few miles uptown, a Black man has been killed by the police, leading to
a demonstration, a counterdemonstration, and a long night of violence
across the tinderbox city.
As Chicky changes into his uniform for
tonight’s shift, he finds himself breaking a cardinal rule of the job:
tonight, he’ll be carrying a gun, bought only hours earlier, but before
he knew of the pandemonium taking over the city. Chicky knows that
there’s more going on in his patch of sidewalk in front of the Bohemia
than anyone’s aware of. Tonight in the city, enemies will clash,
loyalties will be tested, secrets will be revealed—and lives will be
lost.
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MY REVIEW:
Chicky was quite the interesting person; I liked him a lot. Whit was a character that I didn't like in the beginning and still didn't like him in the end either.. But he sure kept things interesting !!This is the first book that I have read by Chris Pavone. I liked how it started out strong. It did drag down a bit for me in the middle because of all the different tenants in the building and the not so good characters outside the building. Each tenant did have a very full backstory and the atmospheres of each place they owned was very well described ! However, I did get lost with who was with who when it came to couples. And just as I thought I had a handle on them, there was a lot of bed hopping on both sides of the couples.
Things did get better the further I went along and I ended up liking it a lot because like in the beginning place Chicky started things off with a bang and the story ended the same way! Breathtaking ending !
I hope to give a try to some of the other stories by this author again !!
