Tables

Tables is the spectacular restaurant that Mario Fermi dreams of opening in Manhattan--a place for the people who matter in the city.Tables is the plaything of a real estate czar who demands success, giving Mario an unlimited budget and an impossible deadline.Tables is what Francis Mckinnon has been waiting for to show her brilliance as an interior designer and prove that she's not just the decorative wife of a Wall Street banker.TABLES is the story of a blackmailer who distorts with vicious humor. He chooses victims with care--for their wealth, for their reputations, for their helplessness.An extraordinary first novel. --Stephen Birmingham