Are You Afraid of the Dark? - Softcover

Sheldon, Sidney

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0446613657 ISBN 13: 9780446613651

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing, 2005

Synopsis

In four cities across the world, four people die violently and mysteriously. The dead share a single crucial link: each was connected to an all-powerful environmental think tank. Two of the victims' widows-accomplished artist Diane Stevens and international supermodel Kelly Harris-may hold the key to their husbands' demise. Terrified for their lives, suspicious of each other, and armed only with their own wits and guile, they must join forces in a nightmare cycle of hunt-and-kill. At stake is the shattering truth about the tragedies that robbed them of the men they loved... and about an awesome conspiracy whose ultimate target is as big as the earth and as close as the air we breathe.

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Review

‘Sheldon is an author working at the height of his power’
New York Times

‘Fast-moving... engrossing... Sidney Sheldon is a master at giving the public what it wants.’
LA Times

From the Publisher

In New York, Denver, Paris and Berlin, four people have died separately in apparent accidents. Two women – the widows of two of the dead – find themselves under ruthless attack and are drawn together in fear, confusion and for mutual protection. But are they being targeted because one of them is the prosecution witness at a famous criminal trial? Or is there a connection to the mystery behind their husband’s deaths? Meanwhile, Tanner Kingsley, Chief Executive of an international Think Tank created only seven years ago, is on the cusp of an amazing discovery which could alter the future of the world. If properly handled, the outcome of this could deliver unbelievable power into the company’s hands. But are the mysterious deaths connected to this volatile secret? And can it be further protected? Thrown together, the women could not be more different: Diane Stevens is a well-connected, affluent artist from the Upper East Side. Kelly Harris is an African-American model who, having grown up in a rough Philadelphia neighbourhood with a new ‘uncle’ every month, believed she had at last found safety and contentment in Paris, married to a brilliant scientist.

Taut with suspense and vivid characterization, and with an unnervingly realistic premise that could alter our lives, Are You Afraid of the Dark is Sheldon at the top of his form.

About this edition

• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0446613657
• ISBN 13: 9780446613651
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 416