| A Maiden's Grave Contributor(s): Deaver, Jeffery (Author) |
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ISBN: 0451204298 ISBN-13: 9780451204295 Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons OUR PRICE: $8.99 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats Published: September 2001 Annotation: Eight deaf girls and their teachers are pulled off a school bus along a windswept Kansas road. They are held hostage in an abandoned slaughterhouse by escaped murderer Lou Handy and two fellow inmates, who threaten to kill one hostage an hour unless their demands are met. Called to the scene is Arthur Potter, the FBI's senior hostage negotiator, who meets in Lou Handy the toughest adversary of his career. As Potter struggles to outwit Handy, hostage Melanie Charrol takes on the killers in a desperate effort to save her students. The clock is ticking as a terrifying game of cat and mouse begins.... |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural - Fiction | Thrillers - Suspense |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 1.17" H x 4.37" W x 7.43" (0.68 lbs) 544 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Heartland - Cultural Region - Plains - Geographic Orientation - Kansas - Cultural Region - Upper Midwest |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A bus full of children is taken hostage in this "screaming hit" (The New York Times Book Review) from the bestselling author of The Never Game and The Bone Collector. Along a windswept Kansas road, eight vulnerable girls and their helpless teachers are forced off a school bus and held hostage in an abandoned slaughterhouse. The madman who has them at gunpoint has a simple plan: One hostage an hour will die unless the demands are met. Called to the scene is Arthur Potter, the FBI's best hostage negotiator. He has a plan. But so does one of the hostages--a beautiful teacher who's willing to do anything to save the lives of her students. Now the clock is ticking as a chilling game of cat and mouse begins. |