The Accident
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Three people will stop at nothing to prevent the publication of a manuscript containing long-buried secrets, from the acclaimed author of The Doorman.
“Unputdownable.”—The New York Times
“A must-read . . . Gripping.”—USA Today
“A taut, bookish thriller.”—People
A ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
Is this book worth killing for?
As dawn approaches in New York, literary agent Isabel Reed turns the final pages of a mysterious, anonymous manuscript, racing through its explosive revelations about powerful people, In Copenhagen, CIA operative Hayden Gray, determined that this sweeping story be buried, is suddenly staring down the barrel of a gun. And in Zurich, the author himself is hiding in a shadowy expat life, always looking over his shoulder. Over the course of one long, desperate day, these lives collide, placing everything at risk—and everyone in mortal peril.
Captivating, sophisticated, and impossible to put down, The Accident proves once again that Chris Pavone is a true master of suspense.
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.
