The Accident
'A real nail-biter.' STEPHEN KING
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- 8,49 €
Publisher Description
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE EXPATS
'A serpentine, sharp-edged thriller.' DAILY MAIL
'Gripping.' MICHAEL CONNELLY
'Unputdownable.' NEW YORK TIMES
Isabel Reed, a powerful New York literary agent, receives a manuscript. Anonymously hand-delivered, the manuscript is full of shocking revelations linked to an old car accident - truths which could compromise national security. Could this be the book of her career?
In Copenhagen, Hayden Gray, a veteran station chief, is also on the trail of this manuscript and the secrets that lie at its heart. For him, quite simply, it must never see the light of day.
As Isabel and Hayden try to outwit each other, and the manuscript leaves a trail of bodies in its wake, the nameless author watches on from afar. . .
Readers were gripped The Accident:
'Couldn't put it down!!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'Page-turner . . . twists and turns to the very end!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'Totally gripping, I was sorry to have finished it!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'Murder mystery at it's best!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
A troubled literary agent receives a shocking manuscript from an anonymous writer in this cinematically stylish thriller. Chris Pavone—whose debut, The Expats, won the prestigious Edgar® Award—lives up to his promise with The Accident. Filled with vivid characters, his entertaining and suspenseful tale shifts seamlessly between the high-stakes worlds of publishing and espionage.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The contents of The Accident, a manuscript submission by an anonymous author, shock New York literary agent Isabel Reed, the heroine of Pavone's high-wire thriller his second novel after 2012's well-received The Expats. Isabel worries that the revelations of this nonfiction work about Charlie Wolfe, a global media baron (think Rupert Murdoch crossed with Charles Foster Kane), pose a real danger. Her fears prove well founded as ruthless, powerful forces do whatever it takes to prevent the book's publication. The cold-blooded murder of someone close to Isabel is but the first of many. The cast of distinctive characters includes Hayden Gray, a Berlin-based "cultural attach " (i.e., spy), who orchestrates the effort to reclaim the manuscript; Camilla Glyndon-Browning, a subsidiary-rights director who tries to shop it to Hollywood; and, of course, the anonymous author himself. Despite the far-fetched conceit, Pavone makes the story credible, and the suspense is palpable.
