The Midnight Partner
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Publisher Description
“DELVING INTO A WORLD OF DRUGS AND S&M, THE MIDNIGHT PARTNER IS AN ABSORBING, FAST-PACED MYSTERY WITH A FINALE WORTHY OF A HOLLYWOOD BLOCKBUSTER”
–USA TODAY
“TANTALIZING.’
—The New York Times
“EXCELLENT’
—Chicago Tribune
First came the death and the betrayal.
Now the last faithful man in the suburbs is about to be tempted beyond his wildest dreams.
Jack Murphy took a dive into his empty swimming pool. Officially, the police are calling it a suicide, but his scriptwriting partner and best friend. Phillie Liebowitz suspects murder. He knows all about Jacks compulsive womanizing Still, nothing could have prepared Phillie for the dark trail of illicit relationships that marked Jack’s last—and most powerful—sexual odyssey.
Phillie used to be faithful—faithful was what he did best—to his kids, his friends, his wife. Now every bond that kept him in check is about to be broken. He is about to follow in Jack’s late-night footsteps. He is about to meet the midnight partner and the dangerous erotic temptation that lies hidden in his own heart.
“A TERRIFIC BOOK, FULL OF SUSPENSE, WISDOM AND HUMOR. I LOVED IT.”
—Joy Fielding, author of See Jane Run and Kiss Mommy Goodbye
A LITERARY GUILD ALTERNATE SELECTION AND A DOUBLEDAY BOOK CLUB SELECTION
About the Author
Bart Davis is the author of ten novels, five non-fiction books, two feature films, and a wide range of print articles. He is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science and Stony Brook University. Bart’s books have all been published internationally, and translated into Japanese, Italian, Chinese, Norwegian, Hungarian, Bulgarian, German, Dutch, Portuguese, British, Spanish, and Korean. His novels include the five-book "Captain Peter MacKenzie" submarine series, and the bestselling A CONSPIRACY OF EAGLES. Bart has also written for the New York Times and NEWSDAY, and his work has appeared in “Psychology Today” and “People” magazine.
Bart’s screenwriting credits include the feature film FULL FATHOM FIVE adapted from his novel; and the feature film LOVE OR MONEY.
He lives with his family in New York.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
City sin comes to the suburbs in this hard-to-swallow thriller from Davis (Voyage of the Storm). When Jack Murphy takes a fatal dive into his empty Nassau County swimming pool, his screenwriting partner, Phillie Liebowitz, tries to find out why. Computer messages left by Jack soon lead Phillie into a suburban underground of drug abuse, group sex and S&M that tunnels across the East River into the even more wicked city. Before Phillie uncovers the main villain behind Jack's death, this 44-year-old has gone riding with a biker gang, had his house bombed, been shot at and poisoned, had a tortured woman die in his arms, visited a Manhattan S&M club with his Jewish gangster cousin, picked up a much younger woman for a night of mind-shattering sex-and killed two men with a giant ice-making machine at Madison Square Garden. If Davis had presented these adventures in middle-age wish fulfillment with the humor they deserve, this novel might have worked. Instead, he leaches away the fun by allowing Phillie's narration-which offers some sharp insights into suburban life and sexual license-to descend into moralizing and sour commentary on pet peeves like doctors, Roman Catholicism and the big, bad city. By the climax, which features a naked Phillie taking on the villain as a snuff film blares on TV, most readers will want to forsake both city and suburb for the mountains, the sea, the desert-anywhere to escape this overwrought silliness. Literary Guild alternate; major ad/promo.
