about the book

Jed Chase is good-looking and easy-going, and has a secure job. He’s lived a charmed, upper middle class and anchored life; that is until he falls for Katherine Cahill, a seductive and dangerous beauty whose dark secrets threaten to destroy Jed’s dreams, his career, ultimately his life. Katherine is married to financial tycoon Steve Cahill who has secrets of his own: he and his business partner, Arthur Barrett are suspected not only working for the U.S. government but also laundering money from them. Katherine seduces Jed into helping her plot Cahill’s murder in order to acquire his tens of millions of dollars.

It is when Katherine’s plan unravels that the story weaves its yarn and no one is who they seem. In an attempt to preserve his freedom, Jed delves into the secret world of Katherine and Steve Cahill and discovers a world of sex, espionage and lies.

about the author

Jack Sussek was born in California but raised on the East Coast of the United States, attended boarding school in Massachusetts and graduated from the George Washington University in Washington, DC with a degree in English. He has worked in the timber business in the Pacific Northwest and in Australia, on sailboats

press & praises

"Think of Bright Lights, Big City meets Body Heat. This is a steamy love story wrapped in a thriller. More than that it’s a romance between a man and a city, a city familiar, welcoming, magical, and fading. You won't stop turning the pages until the sad, powerful ending. I know I couldn't."

-Steve Fishman, Contributing Editor, New York magazine

"Seduction, murder, betrayal, and conspiracy figure in this portrait of a world of secrets and lies that entwine the lives of three former college classmates."

-Publisher’s Weekly

"An insightful and fast paced look into the hidden world of moneyed New Yorkers"

-Warren Adler, author of The War of the Roses

book clubs

Manhattan Affair is ideal for book clubs! (More to come)

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