Alex
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Descripción editorial
Alex Prévost bliver brutalt overfaldet på åben gade og smidt ind i en hvid varevogn. Hendes kidnapper efterlader hende nøgen i et bur flere meter over jorden i en forladt fabriksejendom. Dagene går, og tiden er ved at rinde ud. Bliver det sulten, tørsten eller kulden, der gør det af med Alex først?
Bortset fra et enkelt usikkert øjenvidne har kriminalkommissær Camille Verhoeven ingen spor at gå efter – ingen identitet på ofret, ingen savnede og ingen mistænkte.
I takt med at han langsomt afdækker den unge kvindes usædvanlige historie, står det klart for Camille, at det ikke er noget almindeligt offer, han leder efter. Inden længe bliver det at redde Alex’ liv den mindste af kriminalkommissær Verhoevens mange udfordringer.
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At the outset of French author Lemaitre's impressive American debut, the first in a trilogy, attractive 30-year-old Alex Pr vost is shopping for wigs in a Paris shop when she spots a man waiting on the street who's clearly been following her. Perhaps he's just an admirer who wants to meet her, she thinks. That night, after dining alone at a restaurant, Alex is accosted on the sidewalk by a man who, after discarding the wig he initially grabbed and seizing her by her real hair, throws her into a white van. Soon Alex finds herself trapped inside a wooden crate suspended from the ceiling of an abandoned warehouse. Meanwhile, Commandant Camille Verhoeven throws himself into the kidnapping investigation as a way to deal with his grief over his wife's death, but he and his detectives have few clues to aid them in identifying Alex's abductor. An irritant to his superiors but respected by his subordinates, Verhoeven uses his diminutive stature to unsettle witnesses and suspects while surprising them with his intelligence and wit. Some unexpected plot twists will keep readers turning the pages. 150,000-copy first printing.
