Note: “From Manhattan with Love” can easily be enjoyed as a stand-alone 35,000-word novella. It's thrilling and intense, perfect if you have several hours to kill.


From Stephen King: "Put me down as an enthusiastic Christopher Smith fan. Smith is a cultural genius.


Description:

An outcast billionaire’s daughter is caught at the wrong place at the wrong time.

An international assassin questions her sanity when she falls in love with the very assassin she’s charged to assassinate.

What happens when each collide? Chaos. Murder. Love. Revenge.

And redemption.

In this taut, 35,000-word novella, which is a prequel to the upcoming third novel in the Fifth Avenue series, “Park Avenue,” both women come together for the first time in an explosive story that threatens each of their lives, particularly when one woman breaks her own rules and dares to fall in love.

In “From Manhattan with Love,” she soon learns what she always feared. When it comes to real danger, there’s nothing more dangerous than love itself.


**At the end of "From Manhattan with Love" are lengthy excerpts of "Fifth Avenue" and "Running of the Bulls" to give readers a free taste of the series.

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 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. 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. Secrets are revealed. 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.

STEPHEN KING ON CHRISTOPHER SMITH:

"Put me down as an enthusiastic Christopher Smith fan. ...Smith is a cultural genius." --STEPHEN KING



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.

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.

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.


"Fifth Avenue" is 145,000 words, or about 450 printed pages.




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

"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"



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