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Zusatztext "Compelling ... Laced with page-turning tension and memorable scenes that are as poignant as they are vital.... Rich details and smart use of dialogue help make this a near-perfect ride." --Publishers Weekly “Stewart shows a gift for economy of language and plot that is rare these days, and a talent for evoking atmosphere that has all but vanished from thriller novels.…” –Washington Post “Stewart evokes taste, smell, sight and touch to put the reader right in the middle of the scene.” –Charlotte Observer Informationen zum Autor Birmingham attorney Mike Stewart is the author of three mystery novels -- Sins of the Brother , Dog Island , and A Clean Kill . A native of Vredenburgh, a small South Alabama sawmill town located in Monroe County, he grew up exploring the woods, rivers, creeks, and seashores of the Deep South that now play a central role in his fiction. As a successful corporate attorney, Stewart has more than ten years' experience representing clients before the state and federal courts of Alabama. Five years ago, he left his position as General Counsel of a large healthcare company to devote full time to writing. He is at work on his next novel of suspense, which Dell will publish in 2006. Klappentext A PERFECT PLAN... Scott Thomas doesn't know it, but he has been chosen. Not because he's handsome, smart, or on the verge of a brilliant career as a clinical psychologist trained at Harvard. No, Scott has been chosen because he has the perfect life-for someone who needs a life to destroy.... A PERFECT LIE... It starts with a bizarre carjacking, followed by an apparent burglary in his Cambridge apartment. Then a woman is murdered at the hospital where he works, and evidence of Scott's guilt is all around him-on his computer, in his apartment, in the dead woman's room. With police hunting for him and a bizarre stranger watching his every move, Scott must take a chance on trusting a beautiful woman and searching through a shadow world of computer hackers and unclosed chapters of his own past. Because with the perfect frame closing around him and a killer growing more violent, Scott has only one choice now: to take back his life-or die trying.... Leseprobe CHAPTER 1 Open country spread out beneath the night into distant, scribbled lines of pine and scrub brush. Freezing air whistled through invisible cracks in the hard convertible top; the whine of snow tires vibrated through rubber floor mats; and every whir, groan, and gear change poured into the Land Cruiser's interior as if amplified by a static-wracked sound system. "Turn on the heater." The two hitchhikers had been riding with Scott Thomas for only ten miles. He twisted a knob on the dash. "High as it'll go." A male voice in back asked, "How old is this thing?" "Old. It's a seventy-six." "Freezing my ass off." The girl reached across from the passenger seat and put her hand on Scott's thigh. "Don't you wanna pull over somewhere?" With her touch, he felt the weight of his decision to help these people settle over him. He gently lifted her hand and moved it away. She tried to sound charming. "What's the hurry? Don't you like to have fun? Look at the shoulders on you. What are you, like a hockey player or something?" Scott shook his head and breathed deeply to calm growing apprehension. He didn't tell the girl that he'd wrestled in college. Wrestlers--the real kind--learn to keep quiet about their sport around strangers. More than a few guys have something to prove, and winning a fight is only marginally less painful and undignified than losing one. The guy in back said, "Strong-looking sonofabitch, all right. Not that big, though." The girl giggled and touched Scott's shoulder. "Come on. Pull over. I can do things with my tongue that'll make that pretty...
Product details
Authors | Mike Stewart |
Publisher | Dell Publishing Inc. |
Languages | English |
Product format | Paperback |
Released | 28.12.2004 |
EAN | 9780440241324 |
ISBN | 978-0-440-24132-4 |
No. of pages | 432 |
Dimensions | 102 mm x 171 mm x 25 mm |
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