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by (author) Grant McKenzie

Publisher
Penguin Group Canada
Initial publish date
Jul 2011
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780143173366
    Publish Date
    Jul 2011
    List Price
    $13.5
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780143173359
    Publish Date
    Aug 2010
    List Price
    $25.00
  • CD-Audio

    ISBN
    9781511399401
    Publish Date
    May 2016
    List Price
    $14.99

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Description

How far will one man go to save the people he loves most?

Sam White is an out-of-work actor, making a living as a security guard in a shopping mall. He returns home one night to find his house blown up and two body bags being removed from it. He assumes the bodies are those of his wife and daughter, until he receives a call from a man saying they are alive, but will only be spared if Sam follows instructions and completes the increasingly violent tasks set out for him.

When he meets Zack Parker, also a victim of the kidnapper, they realize their pasts are connected, and the two of them must race against time to discover the identity of their sadistic tormentor—staying one step ahead of the police—to save their families.

Set in Portland, Oregon, featuring the spooky and labyrinthine tunnels underneath the city, this is a fantastically commercial, brilliantly paced read from a debut author.


 

About the author

Born in Scotland, living in Canada and writing fast-paced fiction, Grant likes to wear a kilt and toque with his six-guns. Often compared to Harlan Coben and Linwood Barclay, Grant has three internationally published thrillers to his name - Switch, No Cry for Help, and K.A.R.M.A. - that have earned him an avalanche of positive reviews and loyal readership around the globe. He also has a secret identity as mystery writer M.C. Grant (Oops, there goes that secret) who pens the Dixie Flynn mysteries set in San Francisco. As a journalist, Grant has won numerous awards across Canada and the U.S., including one in 2012 from the Association of Alternative Newsmedia — the same organization that Dixie’s fictitious San Francisco NOW belongs to. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of Monday Magazine in Victoria, B.C.

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