Harrison (Break and Enter, 1990) returns with the story of a
35-year-old widower who takes in a fleeing wife and her
four-year-old daughter - at the same time that he's fighting for
survival at the top of a communications conglomerate. Jack
Whitman's rise to the near-top of a Time-Warneresque corporation
was swift and well-rewarded. HIS personal life was equally
successful until his pregnant wife was shot and killed by a drug
dealer aiming at nearby rivals. Alone in his big Park Slope
brownstone, Whitman now nurses his reflux-ravaged esophagus through
the night, and protects his career from attacks on all sides during
the day. His company is poised to merge with a German-Japanese
conglomerate, an alliance that may take Jack to corporate nirvana
or put him on the street. Taking the subway home one night, he
meets a beautiful but exhausted woman who, with her little
daughter, may be homeless - and after several days, a very
tentative Dolores and her much less tentative daughter Maria enter
his life. Dolores, a Dominican, has fled her Puerto Rican husband -
she's not looking for a relationship, she just needs to stay off
the streets. But Jack is clearly and powerfully attracted to her.
When the husband picks up Dolores' trail and begins to threaten
Jack, Jack hides her and the girl in his house, where she begins to
carve out a home for the three of them. Meanwhile, Jack's
professional life gets more and more frightening. He's been
assigned the suicidal task of convincing the corporation's powerful
chairman of the wisdom and inevitability of the megamerger, and the
chairman is quite as dangerous as the maniacally vengeful
husband.... Intelligent and totally absorbing. What might have been
a routine corporate-basher becomes, in the hands of the very
skillful, wisely observant, and profoundly moral author, a novel to
remember. Walt Whitman haunts the story throughout and to great
effect. (Kirkus Reviews)
Against every instinct of urban survival, the head of long-range
planning at a major US media-entertainment empire takes in a
beautiful troubled woman and her young daughter, and is plunged
into a perilous fight for his home, his job and his life. By the
author of Break and Enter.
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