FIFTH AVENUE

A debut thriller that goes into the sexy, violent underbelly of elite society. FIFTH AVENUE was initially self-published in ebook only in October 2010 and immediately rocketed up the Amazon bestseller charts.

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 debut thriller Fifth Avenue, every vice intermingles with revenge within the city's elite society. Louis Ryan has finalized his plan for revenge against the man who murdered his wife thirty-one years ago. George Redman, has a wife, two daughters, and a circle of close friends-- and Louis Ryan is targeting all of them. 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, the catastrophic chain of events catapults them all through a fast-paced, hard-edged thriller in which nobody is safe. Secrets are revealed. Sex lives are exposed. The Mafia gets involved. And George's two daughters, Celina and Leana Redman, come to the forefront. More than anyone, they are caught in the crossfire 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. For fourteen years, Christopher Smith has been the film critic for a large daily 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 was named Best Critic for 2010 by the MPA. Fifth Avenue was released as an ebook in October 2010 and became a top 5 Amazon bestseller. The thriller series continues with Running of the Bulls (May 2011) and A Rush to Violence (June 2012). Please visit www.fifthavenuenovel.com