Visit his website, Facebook page, and follow him on Twitter at /JefferyDeaver. The main character, an FBI agent, is determined to solve the case and rescue the kidnapped victims, even though the odds are stacked against her. Jeffery Deaver lives in North Carolina and California. He won the WH Smith Thumping Good Read Award in 2001 and in 2004 won the Crime Writers' Association Steel Dagger for Best Thriller with Garden of Beasts, and their Short Story Dagger for The Weekender from Twisted. A three-time recipient of the Ellery Queen Reader's Award for Best Short Story of the year, he has been nominated for an Anthony Award and six Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America. The first Kathryn Dance novel, The Sleeping Doll, was published in 2007 to enormous acclaim.
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He is best known for his Lincoln Rhyme thrillers, which include the number one bestsellers The Vanished Man, The Twelfth Card and The Cold Moon, as well as The Bone Collector which was made into. It was filmed by HBO in 1997.Jeffery Deaver is the award-winning author of two collections of short stories and 29 internationally bestselling novels, including the latest James Bond novel Carte Blanche. What follows is a twelve-hour siege of noose-tight tension - and a war of nerves between Handy and the FBI’s senior hostage negotiator, Arthur Potter.ĭead Silence, based on A Maiden’s Grave, was made into a movie, starring James Garner and Marlee Matlin. The leader of the Hostage takers, Lou Handy, is demanding a helicopter, and is promising to kill one hostage every hour until Potter complies. They make their stand in an abandoned slaughterhouse, and it is there that Lou Handy, a murderer and the convicts’ ringleader, announces his terms: to kill one captive an hour unless his demands are met.įBI Hostage Negotiator Arthur Potter is called to the scene, and asks the criminals their demands. And now, with the girls as their hostages, they have everything to gain.
Waiting for them are three heartless men just escaped from prison - each with nothing to lose. They’re trapped in an abandoned slaughterhouse while federal and state law enforcement surround them and hostage negotiations ensue.Ī school bus carrying eight deaf school-girls and their teachers brakes suddenly on a flat Kansas highway. Three convicts escape from a state prison in Kansas and the horror begins when they intersect with a school bus carrying deaf students and two teachers on a lonely road. An escaped convict takes hostage a bus of deaf children. The ultimate thriller writer’s first large-scale, ticking clock standalone thriller.
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