Colin Harrison (writer)

Colin Harrison ( * 1960 in New York City ) is an American writer and publishing editor.

Harrison writes thrillers and action novels set mostly in New York. His seventh novel, The Finder ( In the Maw of the Dragonlord, 2008) was nominated for the Dashiell Hammett Prize.

He attended Haverford College and the University of Iowa. From 1989 to 2001 he was an editor at Harper 's Magazine; he is an editor at the New York publisher Simon & Schuster in 2001. He lives with his wife, writer Kathryn Harrison, and their three children in Park Slope, a neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.

Novels

→ In the Network of violence, dt Eva Malsch; Bergisch Gladbach: Luebbe 1992 ISBN 3-404-11813-8.

→ checkmate set, dt by Christine Neumeier; Bergisch Gladbach: Luebbe 1995 ISBN 3-404-12301-8.

→ Manhattan at night, dt of Regina Hilbertz and Barbara Wolter; Munich: Lichtenberg, 1997; ISBN 3-7852-8104-8

• 2000 Afterburn

→ Afterburn, German by Reinhard Tiffert; Munich: Lichtenberg 2000; ISBN 3-7852-8116-1

→ Other formats: Everything has its price, same translation; Munich: Earthscan, 2003 ISBN 3-426-62270- X.

→ Other formats: Afterburn - Fatal entanglement, same translation; Munich: Earthscan, 2009 ISBN 3-426-50088-4.

• 2004 The Havana Room

→ Havana Room, German Sepp Leeb; Hamburg: Hoffmann und Campe, 2005 ISBN 3-455-02690-7.

→ as: The lawyer, same translation; Munich: . Heyne 2006 ISBN 3-453-59021- X

• 2008 The Finder

→ In the Maw of the Dragonlord, dt from Anke and Eberhard Kreutzer; Munich: 2009 ISBN 978-3-426-19867-4 Droemer.

→ Other formats: Moloch, the same translation, Munich. Knaur 2011 ISBN 978-3-426-50297-6

• 2009: Risk