'It just gets better as it goes along, involving a trip from prosperity to almost total wipe-out, and the bounce back. But was it worth it? Read it and see. Highly recommended' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

Bill Wyeth is a successful attorney with a wife and son. Then, in one devastating night, he loses everything: family, job, status. Moving out of his home and into a lousy flat, he tramps around Manhattan in a suit and tie disguised as a businessman with a future. One rainy day he wanders into an old-time steakhouse and becomes intrigued by the restaurant's sexy, intuitive manager, Allison, and by a virtually unnoticeable door. It leads down to the mysterious Havana Room which only the privileged can enter. Returning day after day, Bill gains Allison's confidence and is invited into the room, but he finds himself sucked into a dark and terrifying world. Now he will have to unlock the deadly secrets of the Havana Room in order to survive.

'No writer since Tom Wolfe has had more fun guzzling the city's intoxicating mix of sex, money, violence and vanity ... slickly entertaining, blackly humorous' USA TODAY

The class act of the urban thriller... Come on, are you in the bookstore yet?' ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

'Writing with striking assurance, Harrison brings to a John Grisham-like story a stylistic panache and a depth of characterisation that Grishant never attempts, without forfeiting his page-turning grip on the reader' SUNDAY TIMES