_STEPHEN KING ON CHRISTOPHER SMITH:
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_"Put me down as an enthusiastic Christopher Smith fan. ...Smith is a cultural genius." --STEPHEN KING
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DESCRIPTION:
Look beneath all the power and all the wealth that represents New York City's Fifth Avenue, and you'll find greed, blood, revenge. In the international best-selling thriller "Fifth Avenue," each intermingles within a revered society that is unprepared for what's in store for it when one man finally strikes in an effort to destroy another man for murdering his wife thirty-one years ago.
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__Louis Ryan is that man. George Redman, his wife, two daughters and their close friends are his targets. Both men are self-made billionaires who came from nothing to stake their claim to Fifth Avenue. But when Louis Ryan hires an international assassin to literally rip the Redman family apart, a series of events that can't be stopped catapults them all through a fast-paced, hard-edged thriller in which nobody is safe.
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__Secrets are revealed. Sex lives are exposed. The Mafia get involved. And George's two daughters, Celina and Leana Redman, come to the forefront. More than anyone, it's they who are caught in the throes of their father's past as Louis Ryan's blind desire to kill them all takes surprising turns in his all-out effort to see them dead.
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__"Fifth Avenue" is 145,000 words, or about 450 printed pages.
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___A #4 TOP 100 INTERNATIONAL BEST-SELLER.
___A TOP 100 INTERNATIONAL BEST-SELLER FOR SEVEN MONTHS.
1 INTERNATIONAL BEST-SELLER IN "MYSTERIES & THRILLERS"
___THE BEST-SELLING SEQUEL TO FIFTH AVENUE," "RUNNING OF THE BULLS," IS OUT.
___THE THIRD BOOK IN THE SERIES, THE NOVELLA "FROM MANHATTAN WITH LOVE," IS OUT.
___Excerpts from RUNNING OF THE BULLS and FROM MANHATTAN WITH LOVE are included with this edition of FIFTH AVENUE.
___PLANET KINDLE ON CHRISTOPHER SMITH _
____"Fifth Avenue, the first novel by penned Christopher Smith, is a fantastic first effort and was the reason I was simply unable to put my Kindle down over this Christmas period. And I would go as far to say that it ranks as one of the best first novels I've ever read."--PLANET KINDLE
____P.M. RICHTER ON CHRISTOPHER SMITH __
______"Fifth Avenue. A big, big novel. A blockbuster? Yes. A bestseller. It should be. The author, at the beginning of the novel, thanks the people who introduced him to the 'real' Fifth Avenue. I suspect the real one could not be as interesting or engrossing as this novel. ...This is a highly recommended novel. It deserves the five stars." -- P.M. RICHTER
______CHRIS TRUSCOTT ON CHRISTOPHER SMITH __
________Christopher Smith delivers an amazing story that's worth the advance billing. ...His writing is smooth, his observations are sharp and the plot he built is downright stunning. --CHRIS TRUSCOTT
Other books by Christopher Smith:
"Running of the Bulls": A Wall Street Thriller
"From Manhattan with Love": A Novella
________"The Fifth Avenue Series Boxed Set"
________"Bullied": Book One in the Bullied Series
"Revenge: Book Two in the Bullied Series
"Witch": Book Three in the Bullied Series
"War": The Fourth and Final Book in the Bullied Series
"Bullied: The Complete Series"
Review
________**** READ SMITH'S BRAND NEW THRILLER, "A RUSH TO VIOLENCE," JUST PUBLISHED JUNE 3, 2012 AND ALREADY A BEST-SELLER!**
KIRKUS EDITORIAL ON FIFTH AVENUE: " ...filled with jeopardy and tension. This thriller, set in New York, offers an inside look at wealth, power, greed, and how these worlds intermingle and collide when one man seeks revenge and starts a catastrophic chain of events. The book is segmented into four parts, each representing a week, which keeps the action and events tight and condensed in a way that is well suited for the genre. ...readers will find the characters vividly drawn and distinguishable. No one is without blemish, and each has some element that would elicit empathy from readers, which is ideal, as it will keep readers engaged and invested in the outcomes of the characters. Overall, the pacing is tight, fast, action driven, and ideal for what readers will anticipate from the genre." --Kirkus Editorial **__________
About the Author
About the Author For fourteen years, Christopher Smith has been the film critic for a major newspaper in the Northeast. For eight years, he appeared weekly on NBC affiliates, and two years nationally on the E! network. He has written over 4,000 reviews and he has been named Best Critic for 2010 by the MPA. He has published two previous books in his Netflix "Queued" series, which are compilations of hundreds of his film reviews. "Fifth Avenue" is his first novel.