“Jeffery Deaver’s most fiendish thriller ever. …This is brilliant craftsmanship in a vastly entertaining package.” “Thriller Award–winner Deaver delivers a clever, demanding stand-alone that moves backward in time over the span of a three-day weekend, from Sunday evening to early Friday morning. If you’ve ever wished you could take the film Memento to the beach, here’s your chance.” Perhaps the cleverest of all Deaver’s exceptionally clever thrillers. (Oct.“Deaver sucks you into a whirlwind reverse-chronology tour of Gabriela’s nightmare weekend… The conceit of a tale unrolling backward in time initially seems daunting, but it’s not so different from the way lots of detective stories-or for that matter lots of Ibsen plays-unfold, and Deaver dispenses expository bits and cliffhangers with a mastery that’ll make you smile even more broadly after you realize how thoroughly you’ve been hoodwinked. Agent: Deborah Schneider, Gelfman Schneider Literary Agents. This is brilliant craftsmanship in a vastly entertaining package. The finished picture finally emerges with a shock of recognition.
As the ingenious plot folds back on itself, the reader has to reevaluate and reinterpret the constantly shifting “facts” in the case. Gabriela must not only pay a $500,000 ransom but also fork over the mysterious “October List,” which belongs to her former boss Charles Prescott, the head of Prescott Investments, who has fled from a police investigation. In the first chapter, office manager Gabriela McKenzie, whose six-year-old daughter, Sarah, has been kidnapped, waits in her Manhattan apartment for news from fund manager Daniel Reardon, who’s attempting to deal with kidnapper Joseph Astor. Thriller Award–winner Deaver (Edge) delivers a clever, demanding stand-alone that moves backward in time over the span of a three-day weekend, from Sunday evening to early Friday morning.
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