Life or Death
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4.4 • 31 Ratings
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- £4.99
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Publisher Description
Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger Award, this breathtaking standalone novel is The Shawshank Redemption meets No Country for Old Men. Don't miss Michael Robotham's new thriller When She Was Good, out now.
Why would a man escape from prison the day before he's due to be released?
Audie Palmer has spent a decade in prison for an armed robbery in which four people died, including two of the gang. Seven million dollars has never been recovered and everybody believes that Audie knows where the money is.
For ten years he has been beaten, stabbed, throttled and threatened almost daily by prison guards, inmates and criminal gangs, who all want to answer this same question, but suddenly Audie vanishes, the day before he's due to be released.
Everybody wants to find Audie, but he's not running. Instead he's trying to save a life . . . and not just his own.
Praise for Michael Robotham's writing:
'I love this guy's books' Lee Child
'Will have you turning the pages compulsively' The Times
'An absolute master' Stephen King
'He writes in a voice with a haunting sense of soul' Peter James
'Heart-stopping and heart-breaking' Val McDermid
'The real deal' David Baldacci
'Superbly exciting . . . a terrific read' Guardian
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
The bestselling Australian crime writer Michael Robotham delivers his most gripping novel yet, trading in his usual British settings for harsh Texas landscapes. Opening with the jailbreak of convicted armed robber Audie Palmer—just one day before he was scheduled for release—Life or Death hooks you from the first page. Superbly written and bursting with intriguing characters steeped in the larger-than-life mythology of the American South, Robotham’s knockout crime story is an ingeniously devious page-turner.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Early in this so-so standalone from Australian author Robotham, Audie Palmer escapes from a Texas prison with only a day remaining on his 10-year sentence. A decade earlier, authorities named Audie Palmer as an accomplice in a high-profile armored-car robbery that left four people dead, including a security guard, and $7 million unaccounted for. Readers follow Audie as he tries to stay under the radar, his present peppered with flashbacks from his troubled past and bittersweet memories of the only woman he ever loved. While it s obvious that Audie isn t wholly guilty, the depth of the conspiracy isn t clear, and Robotham (Suspect) teases out some genuinely interesting twists. Unfortunately, American readers will have a problem with Audie s implausibly short sentence for felony murder in Texas (despite the intricate plot machinations to justify it) and the ease with which he gets away from a Texas prison unscathed. British usage also jars (e.g., an old man tells Audie he s had a row with his girlfriend).
Customer Reviews
Fabulous Read
You get to the end so quickly....speaks for itself!
DC
Entertainingly Average
Would not say this is book is a gripping page turning thriller but more like an easy read that keeps you engaged. Some of the writing is however a bit cliche particularly around the character dialogue. Some of the reviews are over-hyped.
Tufftrig 71
Such a disappointment, not a scratch on the Ruiz series.