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As each prisoner dies, the bell will ring... After a drugs bust goes wrong, Deputy Sheriff Garrett Nelson is left wounded, with a permanent limp and a career in tatters. On his long road to recovery he finds one consolation - Hannah, his tough-as-nails physiotherapist, and soon they''re planning a future together. Unfit for active police service, Nelson is left with few options, so he gratefully accepts his father-in-law''s offer of a job at a Florida penitentiary on the grounds of an old Spanish mission in the Everglades. The prison''s chapel, a working bell tower, is now an execution chamber. And Nelson must attend the executions. Working on Death Row comes with a few simple rules: - Do not let the inmates get under your skin. - Do not allow any prisoners to escape. - Do not take justice into your own hands. Garrett Nelson will break every one of them. Gripping and heart-breaking by turns, and beautifully set against the backdrop of Florida''s Everglades, The Bell Tower is the latest literary suspense novel from the award-winning, internationally bestselling author of A Quiet Belief in Angels . _________________________ ''In the top flight of crime writing'' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH ''The master of the genre'' CLIVE CUSSLER
A propos de l'auteur
R.J. Ellory is a critically acclaimed author whose novels include the bestselling A Quiet Belief in Angels, which was a Richard & Judy Book Club selection and won the Nouvel Observateur Crime Fiction Prize.
Ellory's novels have been translated into twenty-six languages, and he has won the USA Excellence Award for Best Mystery, the Strand Magazine Best Thriller 2009, the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year for A Simple Act of Violence, the St Maur Prize, the Avignon Readers' Prize, the Livre de Poche Award and the Quebec Laureat. He has been shortlisted for a further thirteen awards in numerous countries, including four Daggers from the UK Crime Writers' Association.
To find out more visit www.rjellory.com or follow him on X @rjellory
Résumé
Set on Death Row in 1970s Florida, THE BELL TOWER is the brand new literary suspense thriller from an award-winning, international bestselling author of A QUIET BELIEF IN ANGELS
