Name: Hostage
Price: 688.00 TWD
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Author: Clare Mackintosh
ISBN: 9781728250502

Type

Physical Book

Author

Clare Mackintosh

Publisher

Sourcebooks Landmark

Language

English

Pages

336

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.2 x 14.3 x 2.3 cm

Weight

0.32 kg.

ISBN13

9781728250502

Synopsis "Hostage "

An utterly riveting read with so many jaw-dropping twists and turns you won't dare unfasten your seatbelt.--Lucy FoleyMackintosh is a pro...the final scene in the book almost made me sick as I read it. I mean that as a compliment of the highest order.--The New York TimesYou can save hundreds of lives. Or the one that matters most...From New York Times bestselling author Clare Mackintosh comes a claustrophobic thriller set over 20 hours on-board the inaugural nonstop flight from London to Sydney.Mina is trying to focus on her job as a flight attendant, not the problems with her five-year-old daughter back home, or the fissures in her marriage. But the plane has barely taken off when Mina receives a chilling note from an anonymous passenger, someone intent on ensuring the plane never reaches its destination: The following instructions will save your daughter's life...Someone needs Mina's assistance and knows exactly how to make her comply.When one passenger is killed and then another, Mina knows she must act. But which lives does she save: Her passengers...or her own daughter and husband who are in grave distress back at home?It's twenty hours to landing. A lot can happen in twenty hours.For fans of the locked-room mystery of One by One and the heart-stopping tension The Last Flight, Hostage is an explosively addictive thriller about one flight attendant and the agonizing decision that will change her life--and the lives of everyone on-board--forever.Praise for Hostage: Feels like a blockbuster movie.--Lisa Jewell, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Then She Was GoneA banger of a book with a truly agonizing 'what would you do?'--Ruth Ware, #1 New York Times bestselling author of One by OneHypnotically good. Should be a hit, could be a classic...--Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Jack Reacher seriesFiendishly clever.--Lisa Gardner, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before She DisappearedA propulsive read.--Karin Slaughter, New York Times bestselling author of The Silent WifeA nail-biter of a thriller.--Shari Lapena, New York Times bestselling author of The Couple Next Door

Clare Mackintosh

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Clare Mackintosh is a British author born in Bristol, known for her psychological thrillers and crime novels. Before turning to writing, she worked for twelve years in the British police, serving in the Criminal Investigation Department and as a public order commander. In 2011, she left the police force to become a full-time writer. She is the founder of the Chipping Norton Literary Festival and currently lives in North Wales with her husband and three children.

Her first novel, I Let You Go, published in 2014, was a resounding success, becoming the best-selling debut thriller of 2015 and winner of the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year in 2016. Her subsequent books, I See You, Let Me Lie, After the End, Hostage, The Last Party, and A Game of Lies, have also been Sunday Times bestsellers and have been translated into more than 40 languages, with over two million copies sold worldwide.

In 2024, she published her first memoir, I Promise It Won’t Always Hurt Like This, inspired by the loss of her son in 2006. Additionally, she is a sponsor of the Silver Star Society, a charity that supports parents facing high-risk pregnancies at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.

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