Parting Shot - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 031235410X ISBN 13: 9780312354107

Synopsis

Trapped in a loveless marriage, local TV journalist Sam Stevens becomes obsessed with a ruthless sniper terrorizing Webster County as the killer continues to claim victim after victim, an obsession that has him fantasizing about escaping from his beleaguered personal life and could have devastating repercussions for all concerned. 15,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author

JONATHAN STONE writes his fiction primarily on the commuter train between his advertising job in Manhattan and his home in Connecticut, where he lives with his wife, his two children, and their Boston terrier. He is a graduate of Yale. This is his fourth novel.

From the Inside Flap

A serial sniper is on the loose, claiming victim after random victim.
TV reporter Sam Stevens sees no reason why his wife can t be one of them.

Local television reporter Sam Stevens is consumed by his failing marriage and, more than that, by the psychological harm his wife is doing to their ten-year-old son. As Sam covers a once-in-a-lifetime story---one that has turned Webster County into bedlam but is at last providing Sam with an opportunity for media stardom---he suddenly sees an even better chance: to solve his personal problems forever.
But there s another player thrust into the national spotlight along with Sam: It s Sheriff Billy Wyatt, who s in way over his head. The FBI is breathing down his neck, and the national press highlights his every bungle. He s confronting a madman---and his own limits. Can he outsmart either?
Out of elements that thriller readers have come to expect, Jonathan Stone has woven a story they assuredly will not expect. In whirlwind action and hurricane prose that echo the best of James Patterson and Harlan Coben, Stone is in top form here, delivering a tale about the unchecked power of the media and the unreasonable passions of fatherhood---with a payoff that will stun and startle, yet make perfect sense.
Parting Shot is a shot of adrenaline. It s a bullet that rotates wildly till it finds its target---deep in the reader s imagination. It s the latest work from a writer whose fiction Ian Rankin has hailed as prime entertainment and T. Jefferson Parker has called clever, bold, and a little nasty.

Edition details

• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 031235410X
• ISBN 13: 9780312354107
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 282