Crying Wolf - Hardcover

Abrahams, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0345423852 ISBN 13: 9780345423856

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 2000

Synopsis

In a new thriller set against the backdrop of an elite New England college campus, a seemingly inconsequential deception to preserve the future of a poor but promising young man has unexpectedly deadly consequences for his friends when they come up with an ingenious scheme involving an arrogant billionaire.

About this title

From the Author:

Nietzsche, my Mom, and I
Nietzsche said: "Youth as such is something that falsifies and deceives." I've wanted to write a crime novel with a university setting for some time, and knew that Nietzsche's thought would play a role - how well he fits the undergraduate years, one of those perfect but troubling fits, like sex and regret. I also knew there'd be a labyrinth of dangerous tunnels beneath the campus, a place where the hidden natures of Nat and Grace and Izzie might be revealed. (Too much of my own college career was spent in tunnel exploration. They were pretty scary, and that was without anyone like Freedy lurking in the darkness. Are there tunnel networks under British universities?) Crying Wolf is the first book of mine in which I've had a character say something verbatim that I heard in real life. Helen Uzig's exit line at the dinner party is a piece of advice my late mother gave me when I was about Nat's age and needed to hear it (even if I didn't know it then). She also taught me most of what I know about writing - the surprise that comes three lines after Helen's exit is her kind of thing exactly. Thanks, Mom.

About the Author:

Peter Abrahams is the author of nine previous novels, including A Perfect Crime, The Fan, and Lights Out, which was nominated for an Edgar Award for best novel. He lives on Cape Cod with his wife and four children.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0345423852
• ISBN 13: 9780345423856
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 330