Hell and Gone
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- USD 7.99
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- USD 7.99
Descripción editorial
The second of three high-energy thrillers arriving back-to-back from cult crime fiction sensation Duane Swierczynski.
Left for dead after an epic shootout that blew the lid off a billion-dollar conspiracy, ex-cop Charlie Hardie quickly realizes that when you're dealing with The Accident People, things can get worse. Drugged, bound and transported by strange operatives of unknown origin, Hardie awakens to find himself captive in a secret prison that houses the most dangerous criminals on earth.
And then things get really bad. Because this isn't just any prison. It's a Kafkaesque nightmare that comes springloaded with a brutal catch-22: Hardie's the warden. And any attempt to escape triggers a "death mechanism" that will kill everyone down here -- including a group of innocent guards. Faced with an unworkable paradox, and knowing that his wife and son could be next on the Accident People's hit list, Hardie has only one choice: fight his way to the heart of this hell hole and make a deal with the Devil himself.
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At the start of Swierczynski's frenetic, breathless second action thriller featuring ex-cop Charlie Hardie, the shadowy Accident People have Hardie, who was put through the wringer in the first book , in their clutches. While his friend Deke Clark, an FBI agent, frantically tries to trace his whereabouts, Hardie finds himself made warden of a surreal underground prison, whose location and true purpose are hidden. With no good options, he does his best to probe the facility's weak spots, and accurately assess who can, and who can't, be trusted. Those waiting for the payoff promised in the prologue, in which college student Julie Lippman learns that her boyfriend has supposedly died in a plane crash after spending a semester break building new houses for the poor, will feel amply rewarded by the end. That it's impossible to guess what's coming in the third and final installment will tantalize, rather than frustrate, readers.
