By MICHELE HEWITSON
Phillip Randall likes danger. On a calculated-risk basis, of course, given that his life so far has been a series of choices calculated to deliver the most excitement for the least possible emotional expenditure.
He has a career at a prestigious Manhattan law firm, a wife with unlimited funds and social connections, and a shopping-related sex drive.
He's also having an affair with a woman who is the other half of a couple he and his wife, Jessica, chose as "City-Made Friends" on the merits of their area code, attractiveness and intelligence.
A speedy read, set in and around the New York eateries where those who are anyone need to be seen, it's a story of ambition and decline, blackmail and bleak, modern-day manners.
Prison, in Randall's grasping, empty world, is a place for which no Zagat guide exists. Now that's a comedown.
HarperCollins
$29.95
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