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Eight students and two teachers from a school for the deaf are kidnapped on a remote Kansas highway by three murderous escaped convicts. They are held hostage in an abandoned slaughterhouse for 18 hours while the FBI's top negotiator, Arthur Potter, attempts to secure their release. The situation is made more difficult because the leader of the convicts is as brilliant in his way as Potter is in his. Meanwhile, reporters are crawling all over the security zone Potter has established, politicians are preening for the cameras, and rival law enforcement agencies are hatching their own rescue plots. Deaver has taken what could have been a routine plot and created a spine-tingling thriller by his judicious use of time, outstanding characterizations, and a plot twist near the end of the book that is as logical as it is startling. In Arthur Potter, he introduces a sympathetic and human hero, a complex, moralistic man who can only succeed at his craft by befriending the vilest criminals and then betraying them. Deaver has also succeeded in making his deaf characters vivid individuals, without a hint of patronizing. George Needham
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A bus carrying eight deaf children and their teachers stops in the middle of the Kansas countryside, a car wreck directly ahead. Soon, three escaped killers rise out of the nearby cornfields and take children and teachers hostage. Pursued by the police, the convicts are forced to hole up in an abandoned slaughterhouse. There they threaten to shoot a child every hour until their demands are met. A 12-hour war of wits begins between FBI hostage expert Arthur Potter and the escapees' leader, Louis Jeremiah Handy. "I aim to get outta here. ...If it means I gotta shoot 'em dead as posts then that's the way it's gonna be," Handy boasts. Potter finds himself "in the middle of the week's media big bang," battling publicity-hungry politicians, trigger-happy cops, and the press as well as the unpredictable killers. This book by the best-selling author of Praying for Sleep (Viking, 1994) starts with a bang, and the tension never lets up. A topnotch thriller with an unexpected kicker at the end.
-?David Keymer, California State Univ., Stanislaus
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-?David Keymer, California State Univ., Stanislaus
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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A read a lot of Deavers books and I felt this one is his best.
No superhuman Lincoln Rhyme presenting a solution at the very last moment, but a really realistic and very gripping story.
Thrilling to the end without any unrealistic turns.
Definitly a must for Deaver fans!
No superhuman Lincoln Rhyme presenting a solution at the very last moment, but a really realistic and very gripping story.
Thrilling to the end without any unrealistic turns.
Definitly a must for Deaver fans!
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Eight young deaf girls and their teachers are abducted by three escaped convicts and held hostage in an abandoned slaughterhouse. Arthur Potter, senior hostage negotiator with the FBI, is called to the scene. He soon finds in Lou Handy, the convict in charge, a diabolical adversary. Deaver is at his best when describing police procedure in detail without complex jargon. Excellent juggling of multiple scenes and varied characters.
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Yikes, being a Deaf educator and a Deaf person myself, I read this book straight through. I hated having to go to school and not know where the book went! Mr. Deaver has an incredible insight into people with malfunctioning brains...wonder why. He did a fair job on research concerning Deaf people, and certainly he captured my own parents' fears concerning people taking advantage of my own deafness. Luckily, I've never run into anyone like Handy in spite of my neuroscience degrees and hope I never will! As a Deaf person and one with a failed cochlear implant, I wish he had been a little more careful about his presentation of what a cochlear implant can and can't do. I realize he tried to be fair in presenting the militant Deaf side and the feelings of those who hearing was lost over time, like mine was...but the cochlear implant will not help the person feel better about themselves if they are taught they are somehow not fit to be in society without hearing of some kind. But enough of the lecture...otherwise the book was outright frightening because of the fact that something as horrible as this could happen. I just hope Deaver doesn't feed any wackos out there new ideas! Karen Sadler, Science Education, University of Pittsburgh, klsst23@pitt.edu
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No page turner but good
This is the first Jeffrey Deaver book I read so far and it is only the third book he wrote. I was skeptical if it is worth reading because the plot of a hostage taking did not seem... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 3. Mai 2003 von ALu69
One of my all-time favorite books
Jeff Deaver is one of my favorite writers, and I think this is one of his best books. I just finished reading The Stone Monkey, in his Lincoln Rhyme series, and it is also... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 22. Dezember 2002 veröffentlicht
Absolutely Unputdownable!
This was the second Deaver - book I read (the first was The Bone Collector). Like the first one it got me hooked from the very beginning. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 30. Juli 2000 veröffentlicht
Awesome and scary!
A great read! I was facinated with the deaf theme, never having read one of this type before. It makes you think about how scary this could really be.
Veröffentlicht am 18. Juli 2000 von Terry B.
Another good story with unbelievable detail...
In the past month I have become the number 1 Deaver fan. I have read every book I've been able to get a hand on. A maiden's grave is another great novel by Deaver. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 5. Juli 2000 von "pnp2000"
Excellent Thriller
Mr. Deaver is an excellent writer, evident in his flowing, non-stilted prose and sense of pace. The last section of A Maiden's Grave contained the best writing, with its dark,... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 21. Juni 2000 von "kevinkk"
The Best Deaver so far!
This was the 2nd Deaver book I read and it is the best so far. A simple premise that is so thick with tension I had to stop reading to calm down. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 16. Juni 2000 von P. Legerski
Am I starting to see a pattern here?
This is my third Deaver. The Bone Collecter and The Devil's Teardrop were the others. It will certainly not be my last. However, in these books I detected a some clear patterns. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 12. Juni 2000 von Bob Tobias
Gripping thriller!
Jeff Deaver is a master of suprise twists and turns and will have you on the edge of the seat turning pages as quickly as possible to see what happens next. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 16. Mai 2000 von Kenri A. Mugleston
FASCINATING
Found this book to be as fascinating as The Bone Collector. Those readers expecting a fairy tale will probably be shocked and disturbed. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 21. April 2000 von Lynn Eakle
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