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Published Apr 2005
384 pages
Genre: Thrillers
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A U.S. federal marshal is pitted against the mob's most resourceful killer -- in a race to save the woman he loves.
"Awfully fast and agreeably scary." - Kirkus Reviews.
"Pure action fans will prefer Pearson in his full-throttle, stand-alone mode [in books such as this] but the wide range of his talent is better displayed in the Boldt novels, where the varying tempo and complex underpinning produce a more deeply satisfying brand of crime fiction." - Booklist.
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Ridley Pearson, born in 1953 in Glen Cove, New York, is a New York Times bestselling author of more than 50 novels, divided between suspense and young adult adventure. Over the years, his work has been published in two dozen languages, and has been adapted by network television and for the Broadway stage. His book Peter and the Starcatchers, written with Dave Barry, was adapted by Rick Elice into a play which went on to Broadway to win 5 Tony Awards.
Ridley was awarded The Raymond Chandler Fulbright fellowship in detective fiction from Oxford University in 1990 and was the Missouri Writer Hall of Fame Quill Award Winner in 2013.
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