John Mountjoy, an escaped murderer, takes a hostage and demands an audience with Peter Diamond, the policeman who had arrested him. Diamond discovers Mountjoy is innocent. But who was the real killer, and can Diamond solve the mystery before the hostage is harmed?
Mary can't see properly, but she's fed up with not being allowed to go anywhere by herself. She sets off alone, but she stumbles into a nightmare when a robbery goes wrong and she is kidnapped and held hostage.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 21 October 2011
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The Siege
The Yale campus becomes the site of an increasingly tense siege in this stunning novel from bestseller White (Dead Time). After unidentified attackers quietly take over a building belonging to one of Yale's secret societies, they transform it into a virtual fortress holding an unknown number of students hostage. As officials become aware of what has happened, the response escalates in predictable fashion, but these hostage takers are completely unpredictable.
When a convenience store robbery goes horribly wrong the three young men who perpetrated the crime make a run for it. Hotly pursued by the police they crash into the suburban home of an accountant and take the family hostage, and before they know it, an armed siege ensues. This is the last thing the local sheriff wanted after all, he left the force in L.A. because of the stress, and this is about as stressful as it gets. But the gang have chosen the wrong accountant to hold hostage. He works for the Mafia and he holds all the local Family's financial records.
Charley Castillo works with the Department of Homeland Security, but more and more he is the man to whom the president turns when he needs an investigation done discreetly. And no situation demands discretion more than the one before them now.
