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Fifth Avenue [Paperback]

Christopher Smith , Constance Hunting , Kathlyn Tenga-Gonzalez
3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (267 customer reviews)

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Book Description

October 12, 2010
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 seven-month Top-100 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. 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.

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

Kirkus:  "...filled with jeopardy and tension. ...readers will find the characters vividly drawn and distinguishable. Overall, the pacing is tight, fast, action driven, and ideal for what readers will anticipate from the genre."  --Kirkus

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Product Details

  • Paperback: 450 pages
  • Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (October 12, 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1453887857
  • ISBN-13: 978-1453887851
  • Product Dimensions: 0.9 x 6.1 x 9.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (267 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #715,517 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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About the Author
Christopher Smith is the #1 international best-selling author of "Fifth Avenue," its sequels "Running of the Bulls" and "From Manhattan with Love," as well as "Bullied," "Revenge," "Witch" and "War," all four of which deal with the subject of bullying. His newest thriller is "A Rush to Violence," which will be a three-book series. "Park Avenue" hits at the end of 2012. For fourteen years, Smith was the film critic for a major newspaper in the Northeast. For eight years, he appeared weekly on NBC affiliates, and two years nationally on the E! network. He has written over 4,000 reviews and he has been named Best Critic for 2010 by the MPA. He has published two previous books in his Netflix "Queued" series, which are compilations of hundreds of his film reviews. He lives in Maine.

Customer Reviews

I highly recommend it and I look forward to reading other books by Christopher Smith. Edwin H. Holmes Jr.  |  54 reviewers made a similar statement
I could not put the book down once I started reading it. Book Maniac  |  58 reviewers made a similar statement
The characters are shallow, the plot too grandiose, the writing very flat. S. Vorenberg  |  40 reviewers made a similar statement
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
147 of 168 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Add me to the list of shills . . . November 12, 2010
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Christopher Smith has penned a fine first novel, one of the better debut novels I have read. I suppose by giving it more than two stars, the nay-sayers who took issue with Mr. Smith will classify this review as just another shill rating. Be that as it may, Fifth Avenue was riveting in many respects. I did not expect it to be an expose of corporate America, nor a treatise on managing large corporations, yet there were some revelations that were informative. The cast of characters is large; their actions varied; the interests divergent. Oddly, I did not find one character whom I thought was a truly "nice" person. Fifth Avenue depicts a world of "me first" corporate greed including all the "hanger's on."

I quite enjoyed this read and the myriad plot variations. Yes, some were discernable, predictable, but that is no different than reading any novel or watching any movie and determining beforehand what might happen. An inveterate reader will always look ahead and predict what might happen. That does not detract from the story, nor the ability to keep the reader interested. I have read multiple versions of the Battle of the Alamo. I ALWAYS know what is going to happen, but I read them nonetheless.

The writing was quite well done, very few errors, duplicate words, misused words, or typos. And the length of the book is far beyond most of what have come to accept as a "novel" length piece of fiction.

Well done, Mr. Smith. I commend this effort and look forward to more of your work.

Gordon Ryan, Author
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69 of 78 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Oh please...SPOILERS December 13, 2010
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Fifth Avenue had a great premise, but was way too over the top. Leana, who I guess was supposed to be the heroine, came off as completely unbelievable and a whiny, shallow woman. I get the premise that Leana's father's arch enemy would hire her to run a hotel to upset her dad, but not if she had zero experience. The few scenes where Leana tells off her "assistant" at the hotel were contrived to the extreme and painful to read. Characters were killed off before the reader had time to know them, and every main character was a cliche. One dimensional characters are no fun to read. It felt like the author took a writing class and then used a pro forma list of character types: business tycoon, rich smart daughter, rich troubled daughter, oh yeah, we need a typical mafia guy, etc.

Book would have been a lot better if the author had cut out 1/2 of the characters and ridiculous subplots and spent more time focusing on developing fewer main people.

The scenes where Leana tells off her father? More cliches.

This book was not a "fast paced thriller", it was boring in the extreme and completely predictable. UGH.
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114 of 135 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A true page-turner October 27, 2010
By P. Cook
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Some of these reviews are discouraging, because they focus on the most prurient parts of the book. It should be noted that the pages depicting sexual content are few and far between. What makes this book worth reading are the plot and characters.

Smith creates compelling heroes and villains, but leaves the reader wondering who they should root for in the end. This ambiguity creates tension, and that is what makes this book a page turner. Readers will care about who lives and who dies, which elevates this story above others. Smith is a talented writer, who has written a good book full of compelling characters. I recommend it.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
2.0 out of 5 stars Fifth avenue
Very light and not very well developed characters. I won't be reading the other books in this series. Just not interesting.
Published 2 days ago by Candice
4.0 out of 5 stars Great read
Began slow but picked up and zoom through the rest of the book am now about to read part II.
Published 3 days ago by Yvette P. Carter
5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it
A very good read, Fifth Avenue will keep you up late just to see what will happen next. Living in NY I can feel the power and wealth of Fifth Ave. Read more
Published 4 days ago by D. Sills
5.0 out of 5 stars Great read
This was a great book. I had not read any of Christopher Smith's books before Fifth Avenue. Now I can't wait to read all the rest.
Published 5 days ago by Mary Battle
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!
Couldn't' put it down. Very spellbinding. Excellent. Reads like a James Patterson (my favorite) book. We are going to be seeing a lot of Christopher Smith.
Published 13 days ago by Sonja Allen
4.0 out of 5 stars A Very twisted thriller
The people in this book are such nice people....NOT! There are very few books that I dislike or hate as many characters as I did this book. But that is not a bad thing. Read more
Published 15 days ago by J. Rivera
1.0 out of 5 stars Trite
Cliche after cliche. Could not get through it. Characters were paper thin. Not worth the $1.99 I paid. I guess inspired by Trump family?
Published 29 days ago by New York
2.0 out of 5 stars Started out good..
Definitely lost interest towards the end. There were a lot of grammatical and typing errors. The author needs someone to edit his drafts
Published 1 month ago by C. Johnston
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic
I loved this book. Truly suspenseful, just when you start to relax from on terror filled scene, something unexpected happens and you are back on the edge of your seat.
Published 1 month ago by V.A. Roncelli
2.0 out of 5 stars New York could never be this boring.
Strictly a girlie book bad soap opera.
If this had been on the network it won't have lasted.
Forget it.
Published 1 month ago by art minick
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