04690cam a2200877 4500 590458902 TxGeo 20220725120000.0 ||||||s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780307567697 0307567699 B002IPZJUG Amazon f632cd4c-6aff-48eb-a356-310a8aa59760 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 256446 OverDrive (Product ID) 33196 33196 33196 TxGeo Crais, Robert. Hostage [Libby] : A Novel. Random House Publishing Group, 2009. crime fiction. Investigators. Hard Boiled. crime thriller. Mystery and Suspense. cop. Los Angeles. hardboiled. Fiction. crime. detective. Thrillers. American. suspense. Detective Fiction. mystery. mystery thriller. crime novel. mysteries. novel. Thriller. detectives. mystery fiction. mystery and thrillers. Law Enforcement. police procedurals. mystery crime. detective novels. thriller books. crime books. mystery books. mystery suspense. robert crais. mystery thrillers. mystery novels. suspense books. mystery suspense thriller. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1933kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Mystery. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:The bestselling author of <b>Demolition Angel</b> and <b>L.A. Requiem</b> returns with his most intense and intricate thriller yet.<br /> As the <i>Los Angeles Times</i> said, Robert Crais is “a crime writer operating at the top of his game.” His complex heroes and heroines, his mastery of noir atmosphere, and his brilliant, taut plots have catapulted him into the front rank of a new breed of thriller writers. <b>Hostage</b> proves his earlier success was no fluke. It’s an unstoppable read.<br /> An ex-con with delusions of grandeur and his tagalong brother unwittingly team up with a psychopath one wrong word away from meltdown. When their late afternoon joyride turns into a random act of violence, they take a family hostage in the affluent bedroom community of Bristo Camino. Enter Chief of Police Jeff Talley, a stressed-out former LAPD SWAT negotiator who is hiding from his past. Plunged back into the high-pressure world that he desperately wants to forget, Talley soon learns that his nightmare has only begun.<br /> The hostages are not who they seem, and the home contains secrets that even L.A.’s most lethal and volatile crime lord, Sonny Benza, fears. As Talley tries to hold himself together and save the people inside, the full weight of Benza’s wrath descends on him, putting the police chief and his own family at risk. Soon, all involved are held hostage by the exigencies of fate and the only one capable of diffusing the standoff is the least stable of them all.<br /> <b>Hostage</b> is a blistering stand-alone thriller with superb characters in crisis, multistranded plotting, and pitch-perfect Southern California sensibility. Media Type: eBook. Grand Master Award. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-24 20:00:02. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/F63/2CD/4C/HostageANovel9780307567697.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=F632CD4C-6AFF-48EB-A356-310A8AA59760&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/F63/2CD/4C/HostageANovel9780307567697.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=F632CD4C-6AFF-48EB-A356-310A8AA59760&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/F63/2CD/4C/HostageANovel9780307567697.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=F632CD4C-6AFF-48EB-A356-310A8AA59760&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) QS5