The Doorman: A Novel

ISBN: 0374604797

Author: Pavone, Chris

Condition: New

Named one of the Best Thrillers and a Notable Book of 2025 by the New York TimesA pulse-pounding novel of class, privilege, sex, and murder, from the New York Times bestselling author of Two Nights in Lisbon and The Expats.Chicky Diaz is everyones favorite doorman at the Bohemia, the most famous apartment house in the world, home of celebrities, financiers, and New Yorks cultural elite.Up in the penthouse, Emily Longworth has the perfect-looking everything, all except her husband, whom shed quietly loathed even before the recent revelations about where all the money comes from. But his wealth is immense, their prenup is iron-clad, and Emily cant bring herself to leave him. Yet.And downstairs in 2A, Julian Sonnenberg-who has carved himself a successful niche in the art world, and led a good half-century of a full and satisfying, cosmopolitan life-has just received a devastating phone call that does nothing at all to alleviate his sense that, probably for better and worse, he has aged out and hes just not that useful to anyone any more.Meanwhile, gathered in the Bohemias bowels, the buildings almost entirely Black and Hispanic, working-class staff is taking in the news that that just a few miles uptown, a Black man has been killed by the police, leading to a demonstration, a counterdemonstration, and a long night of violence across the tinderbox city.As Chicky changes into his uniform for tonights shift, he finds himself breaking a cardinal rule of the job: tonight, hell be carrying a gun, bought only hours earlier, but before he knew of the pandemonium taking over the city. Chicky knows that theres more going on in his patch of sidewalk in front of the Bohemia than anyones aware of. Tonight in the city, enemies will clash, loyalties will be tested, secrets will be revealed-and lives will be lost.