Afterburn
By: Colin Harrison.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 438
Subjects: Executives -- Fiction; Ex-convicts -- Fiction; Organized crime -- Fiction; Hong Kong (China) -- Fiction; New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Colin Harrison's new thriller tells the story of Charlie Ravich, a survivor whose brutal experience as a POW in Vietnam has more than prepared him for the cutthroat world of global commerce. Now an Upper East Side executive in his late fifties, Charlie has only one problem: his family is dying out. His wife teeters on the edge of Alzheimer's; their son has succumbed to leukemia; and their daughter, Julia, is unable to bear a child.".

"Enter Christina, a voluptuous and beguiling Columbia University dropout - intelligent, selectively dishonest, filled with desire. Her affair with Rick Bocca, a member of a big-time truck-theft ring run by mobster Tony V., has landed her in prison. After four years at Bedford Hills, she is suddenly released by the Manhattan D.A.'s office - perhaps because she is innocent, perhaps not.".

"Warned by a detective that Christina is being set up by Tony V., Rick begins a desperate, bungled search to warn Christina, who has lied her way into the high-flying world of Charlie Ravich. But her past catches up with her, and Rick's catches up with him, setting off a harrowing chain of betrayals that leaves only one person with any hope of a future."--BOOK JACKET.