Everything to Lose: A Novel - Softcover

Gross, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061656054 ISBN 13: 9780061656057

Publisher: Harper, 2015

Synopsis

A determined mother becomes entangled in a murderous conspiracy to keep a twenty-year-old secret buried in this blistering thriller, set during the tragic aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, from Andrew Gross, the New York Times bestselling author of 15 Seconds and No Way Back.

While driving along a suburban back road, Hilary Cantor, who's just lost her job and whose deadbeat husband has left her to care for her son who has Asperger's, witnesses a freakish accident when a deer suddenly darts in front of the car ahead of her. The driver careens down a hill and slams into a tree. Rushing to help, she discovers the car smoking, the driver dead--and a satchel on the floor stuffed with a half million dollars.

That money could prevent her family's ruin and keep her son in school. In an instant, this honest, achieving woman who has always done the responsible thing makes a decision that puts her in the center of a maelstrom of unforeseeable consequences and life-threatening recriminations. It isn't long before someone comes looking for the money, and as they get closer and closer to Hilary, she is pulled into a terrifying scheme involving a twenty-year-old murder, an old woman whose entire life has been washed out to sea by the storm, and a powerful figure determined to maintain the secret that can destroy him.

With everything to lose and putting everything she loves at risk, Hilary joins up with a dogged police official from Staten Island who has his own connections to the money and is dealing with his family's tragic struggles in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. Together they must fight to bring down an enemy who will stop at nothing to keep buried what that money was meant to silence.

Everything to Lose is a propulsive thriller filled with tension and unexpected twists. Pitting an ordinary woman against powerful and desperate figures, this explosive and heartbreaking tale of suspense will appeal to readers of Harlan Coben, Lee Child, and David Baldacci.

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Review:

"The reader will develop an emotional attachment to the heroine and hope she finds a way to save herself...very clever."--RT Book Reviews

"Heart-stopping climax."--Publishers Weekly

"A tightly wound, realistic thriller."--Kirkus Reviews

"Sets a new high bar for this master of the high octane thriller."--Hearst Connecticut Media

"A fast read with twists, crime, history and motion."--About.com

"[A] one-sitting, nail-biting chronicle of how one bad decision can lead to destruction."--Richmond Times-Dispatch

"A First class book that the reader will not want to put down."--Military Press

"Loved every word of the book as I tore through in one sitting... Enjoy this wild ride."--Bookreporter.com

"A first class read."--Suspense Magazine

"[T]he characters... are beautifully, acutely, and sympathetically drawn.... [Gross is] a terrific story-teller and an astute observer of the best and worst of human nature. And those qualities are brilliantly illuminated in Everything to Lose."--Examiner.com

About the Author:

Andrew Gross is the author of the New York Times and international bestsellers Everything to Lose, No Way Back, 15 Seconds, Eyes Wide Open, Reckless, Don't Look Back, The Dark Tide, and The Blue Zone. He is also coauthor of five number one bestsellers with James Patterson, including Judge & Jury and Lifeguard. His books have been translated into more than twenty-five languages.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0061656054
• ISBN 13: 9780061656057
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 416