Safari Murder Party
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- $199.00
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- $199.00
Descripción editorial
In this darkly funny, slightly unhinged, heart-pounding thriller, two office rivals must team up to escape wild animals and even wilder coworkers on a corporate retreat gone wrong.
Fletcher Spence is dying for a promotion. And her colleagues are more than happy to oblige.
After three years working seventy-hour weeks as assistant to the most terrifying CEO in the magazine world, Fletcher finally finagled a spot on Cartwright Media’s annual corporate retreat—a famously luxurious week on the Cartwrights’ private island, where promotions are handed out like party favors. And her plan to snag her dream job as a travel magazine photographer was going great...until her boss’s dramatic death reveals his last will and testament: Whoever survives the week will inherit the company.
So now she’s stuck on her billionaire boss’s safari park island, surrounded by wild animals and on the run from coworkers who’ve swapped coffee cups for machetes and briefcases for hunting rifles.
To Fletcher’s dismay, her only ally might be her boss’s insufferably gorgeous son, Waylon Cartwright. Despite their hostile history, Fletcher is at least 80 percent sure he won’t try to kill her this week. Plus, his experience on the island might come in handy while they fend off lions and tigers and...marketing executives? Oh my.
While Fletcher battles her own ambitions and her unexpected attraction to Waylon, her power-hungry, bloodthirsty colleagues will do anything to stop them from escaping with their lives. Everyone knows the media industry is cutthroat, but in this safari party, it’s never been more true.
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Why is media scion Waylon Cartwright threatening to slit the throat of his father's executive assistant in the middle of the jungle? This giddy adult thriller from YA author Moore (Us in Ruins) poses that question in a prologue, then flashes back to fill in the blanks. Waylon has been tasked with arranging the annual corporate retreat for top performers at his father Dyer's magazine empire, on a private island off Madagascar. Despite her devoted labor, Dyer's assistant, Fletcher, doesn't initially receive an invitation and is appalled that Waylon, who hasn't worked at Cartwright Media for years, has. Fletcher manages to worm her way onto the guest list, only to receive a shock when, after the group lands on Lydell Island, Dyer announces in a pair of videos that he's been afflicted with a fatal heart condition. Then he tells the group that he's sent all support staff away and cut off communication with the outside world, isolating the 14 guests so they can battle for control of Cartwright Media's multibillion-dollar portfolio—help will come in five days, at which point only one person will be able to claim the company. The ensuing carnage is darkly funny, with plenty of smart surprises along the way. This is a sleek and entertaining ride.
