Fear the Worst

Zusatztext “Readers will find themselves desperate to finish just one more page before putting the book down . . . a page-turning thriller that’s intense! compelling! and for the most part! expertly paced.” – Kirkus “Barclay earns a solid A for his page-turning plot.“— Publishers Weekly “Barclay's pacing is impeccable…an uncomfortably plausible tale ... a page-turner that keeps the reader guessing until the end.”— Denver Post “Gripping…Unfold[s] with mounting tension and suspense…believable and scary for being rooted in human-sized characters and laced with saving humor.” – Wall Street Journal Informationen zum Autor Linwood Barclay  is a former columnist for the  Toronto Star . He is the #1 internationally bestselling author of many critically acclaimed novels, including  The Accident, Never Look Away, Fear the Worst, Too Close to Home,  and  No Time for Goodbye . Multiple titles   have been optioned for film. Klappentext Tim Blake is an average guy. He sells cars. He has an ex-wife who's moved in with another man. It's not a life without hassles, but nothing will prepare him for when his daughter, Sydney, vanishes into thin air. At the hotel where she supposedly worked, no one has ever heard of her. Even her closest friends seem to be at a loss. As he retraces Sydney's steps, Tim discovers that the suburban Connecticut town he always thought of as idyllic is anything but. What he doesn't know is that his every move is being watched. There are others who want to find Sydney as much as Tim does. And the closer Tim comes to the truth, the closer he comes to every parent's worst nightmare-and the kind of evil only a parent's love has a chance in hell of stopping. Leseprobe Chapter One "We've also been looking at the Mazda," the woman said. "And we took a—Dell, what was it called? The other one we took out for a test drive?" Her husband said, "A Subaru." "That's right," the woman said. "A Subaru." The woman, whose name was Lorna, and her husband, whose name was Dell, were sitting across the desk from me in the showroom of Riverside Honda. This was the third time they'd been in to see me since I'd come back to work. There comes a point, even when you're dealing with the worst crisis of your life, when you find yourself not knowing what else to do but fall back into your routine. Lorna had on the desk, in addition to the folder on the Accord, which was what Lorna and Dell had been talking to me about, folders on the Toyota Camry, the Mazda 6, the Subaru Legacy, the Chevrolet Malibu, the Ford Taurus, the Dodge Avenger, and half a dozen others at the bottom of the stack that I couldn't see. "I notice that the Taurus has 263 horsepower with its standard engine, but the Accord only has 177 horsepower," Lorna said. "I think you'll see," I said, working hard to stay focused, "that the Taurus engine with that horsepower rating is a V6, while the Accord is a four-cylinder. You'll find it still gives you plenty of pickup, but uses way less gas." "Oh," Lorna said, nodding. "What are the cylinders, exactly? I know you told me before, but I don't think I remember." Dell shook his head slowly from side to side. That was pretty much all Dell did during these visits. He sat there and let Lorna ask all the questions, do all the talking, unless he was asked something specific, and even then he usually just grunted. He appeared to be losing the will to live. I guessed he'd been sitting across the desk of at least a dozen sales associates between Bridgeport and New Haven over the last few weeks. I could see it in his face, that he didn't give a shit what kind of car they got, just so long as they got something. But Lorna believed they must be responsible shoppers, and that meant checking out every car in the class they were looking at, com...

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Readers will find themselves desperate to finish just one more page before putting the book down . . . a page-turning thriller that s intense, compelling, and for the most part, expertly paced. Kirkus

Barclay earns a solid A for his page-turning plot. Publishers Weekly

Barclay's pacing is impeccable an uncomfortably plausible tale ... a page-turner that keeps the reader guessing until the end. Denver Post

Gripping Unfold[s] with mounting tension and suspense believable and scary for being rooted in human-sized characters and laced with saving humor. Wall Street Journal

Product details

• Authors: Linwood Barclay
• Publisher: Dell Publishing Inc.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 23.02.2010
• EAN: 9780553591750
• ISBN: 978-0-553-59175-0
• No. of pages: 544
• Dimensions: 107 mm x 174 mm x 29 mm
• Series: Dell; Random House Publishing Group
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense