"A special occasion" "(Entertainment Weekly)" in the celebrated career of Evan Hunter, "Criminal Conversation" goes deeper than most suspense fiction dares—inside the intimate, sensual secrets of lovers... In a chic apartment hidden within a working class neighborhood, Sarah and Andrew make love. Neither of them knows that their illicit affair is about to have explosive consequences—or that their hideaway has been wired to record their every word, by a New York City prosecutor with an agenda to indict Andrew, a reputed Mafia leader. And none of them can predict where the most basic desires of the human heart—passion, ambition, vengeance—will lead: a life-and-death struggle inside the worlds of organized crime and legal warfare.