Named one of the Best Thrillers and a Notable Book of 2025 by the New York Times Instant New
York Times Bestseller A 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
everyone's favorite doorman at the Bohemia the most famous apartment house in the world home
of celebrities financiers and New York's cultural elite. Up in the penthouse Emily
Longworth has the perfect-looking everything all except her husband whom she'd 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 can't 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 he's just not that useful to anyone any more. Meanwhile
gathered in the Bohemia's bowels the building's 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 tonight's shift
he finds himself breaking a cardinal rule of the job: tonight he'll be carrying a gun bought
only hours earlier but before he knew of the pandemonium taking over the city. Chicky knows
that there's more going on in his patch of sidewalk in front of the Bohemia than anyone's aware
of. Tonight in the city enemies will clash loyalties will be tested secrets will be
revealed-and lives will be lost.
