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The Doorman
- Author
- Chris Pavone
- Narrator
- Edoardo Ballerini
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Publish Date
- 20 May 2025
- Run Time
- 12 hours 12 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Narrative theme: social issues / social problems, Narrative theme: diversity, equity, equality, inclusion, Narrative theme: politics / economics, Political / legal thriller, Thriller / suspense fiction
- Rating
- 5.0 (1 review)
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What to expect
'Sensationally good.' LEE CHILD
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 favourite doorman at the Bohemia, New York City’s world-famous home of celebrities, financiers, and the cultural elite.
Gathered in the Bohemia’s basement, the almost entirely Black and Hispanic staff is reeling. Just a few miles away, a Black man has been killed by the police, leading to a long night of violence across the city.
But the rising tensions aren’t what most concern Chicky. He knows that there’s more going on within the rooms of the Bohemia than anyone’s aware of. In fact, ahead of tonight’s shift, he bought a gun even before he knew of the rising pandemonium.
Tonight, enemies will clash, loyalties will be tested, secrets will be revealed – and lives will be lost.
New York City is a tinderbox – just one more spark and it will go up in flames…
'Smart, twisty, and sharply written, The Doorman is hard to put down and harder to forget. A delight.' KARIN SLAUGHTER, Sunday Times bestselling author
'Chris Pavone’s novel moves at breakneck speed, twisting and turning, jostling together those who might otherwise live worlds apart, intertwining their secrets, their private heartaches, and their fates as The Doorman hurdles to its shocking conclusion.' JENNY JACKSON, New York Times bestselling author
Critics Review
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Sensationally good, wise, wry and perceptive - this era's great state-of-the-city novel, up there with the very best of Tom Wolfe and Jay McInerney.
Lee Child
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Smart, twisty, and sharply written, The Doorman is hard to put down and harder to forget. A delight.
Karin Slaughter
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Like the New York City subway, Chris Pavone’s novel moves at breakneck speed, twisting and turning, jostling together those who might otherwise live worlds apart, intertwining their secrets, their private heartaches, and their fates as The Doorman hurdles to its shocking conclusion.
Jenny Jackson
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Delivers a lacerating, Tom Wolfe–worthy dissection of Manhattan society in the post-Covid era... Page-turning from the opening paragraph to its killer finale
Publishers Weekly, starred review
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A near perfect blend of clever plotting, wicked social commentary, irresistible setting, truly memorable characters, and old-fashioned page-turning fun.
John Grisham
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Chris Pavone has always been good, but this novel is way better than good. The kind of novel that wins book awards. Cynical, tender, sharp, dense, funny, and loaded with inside dope about how New York works (and how it doesn’t). The Doorman is a Bonfire of the Vanities for the 21st century. He gives it to both sides of the culture wars, and with both smoking barrels.
Stephen King
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A state-of-the-city novel, a kaleidoscopic portrait of New York at a singularly strange moment…With its laser-sharp satire, its delicious set pieces in both rich and poor neighbourhood… and its portrait of a restive city torn apart by inequality, resentment and excess, The Doorman naturally invites comparison to The Bonfire of the Vanities… With his eye for absurdity and ear for nuance, he seems as if he’s writing not from some elevated place high above the city, but from within it… all of it accelerates into a tour de force ending.
New York Times
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Invites comparison to The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe’s lacerating dissection of New York in the 1980s.
The Oldie
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A novel about power, sex and murder, very much in the mould of Harlan Coben and Tom Wolfe
Choice Magazine
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It’s beautifully written, a state-of the-nation novel that is also about recognisably real individual characters and which becomes, in its second act, a nerve-shredding thriller.
Morning Star
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The societal and political aspects of the thriller never distract from its compelling events and make this both a novel for the ages and a wonderful page turner.
Crime Time, Maxim Jakubowski's Book of the Month
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A tightly woven suspenseful tale, questioning what we understand and what we know about the people around us... Original and challenging, a top read
CrimeTime FM
User Reviews
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Gripping book, superb narration.
Jane Astrid 2025-09-16
Details
- Author
- Chris Pavone
- Narrator
- Edoardo Ballerini
- Duration
- 12 hours 12 minutes
- Release Date
- 20 May 2025
- ISBN
- 9781035909216
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Genre
- Narrative theme: social issues / social problems, Narrative theme: diversity, equity, equality, inclusion, Narrative theme: politics / economics, Political / legal thriller, Thriller / suspense fiction
- Rating
- 5.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 5.0(1 review)
Synopsis
Bloomsbury presents The Doorman by Chris Pavone, read by Edoardo Ballerini.'Sensationally good.' LEE CHILDA 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 favourite doorman at the Bohemia, New York City’s world-famous home of celebrities, financiers, and the cultural elite.Gathered in the Bohemia’s basement, the almost entirely Black and Hispanic staff is reeling. Just a few miles away, a Black man has been killed by the police, leading to a long night of violence across the city.But the rising tensions aren’t what most concern Chicky. He knows that there’s more going on within the rooms of the Bohemia than anyone’s aware of. In fact, ahead of tonight’s shift, he bought a gun even before he knew of the rising pandemonium.Tonight, enemies will clash, loyalties will be tested, secrets will be revealed – and lives will be lost.New York City is a tinderbox – just one more spark and it will go up in flames…'Smart, twisty, and sharply written, The Doorman is hard to put down and harder to forget. A delight.' KARIN SLAUGHTER, Sunday Times bestselling author'Chris Pavone’s novel moves at breakneck speed, twisting and turning, jostling together those who might otherwise live worlds apart, intertwining their secrets, their private heartaches, and their fates as The Doorman hurdles to its shocking conclusion.' JENNY JACKSON, New York Times bestselling author
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