Desert Angel - Hardcover

Price, Charlie

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378 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374317755 ISBN 13: 9780374317751

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2011

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Fourteen-year-old Angel wakes up one morning at her desert trailer home to discover her mother has been murdered by a lowlife named Scotty, who has vanished. Angel has no water, no weapon, but she knows that Scotty, an expert tracker and hunter, will surface soon in order to eliminate her as a witness. She has to run, to disappear, if she is to survive and tell the world what happened. Her flight takes her through a harsh landscape to places she never expected to be, forcing her to trust others for the first time and strengthening her in ways she doesn't even anticipate . . . until it's time to take a stand.

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Desert Angel In the California desert, fourteen-year-old Angel is on the run from the man who abused her, killed her mother, and intends to kill her too. Full description

Review:

"Relentless, heart-stopping suspense" (Kirkus Reviews)

"Price's pacing is tight, aided by direct, clipped prose that underscores Scotty's brutality and Angel's fragile emotional state. Both the best and worst of humanity shine through in this gripping novel" (Publishers Weekly)

"If suspense is your bag, this is a book to read" (VOYA)

"Price's fast-paced thrilling story paints a bleak and depressing picture of American 'trailer' life set against an unforgiving landscape . . . Revealing, raw and shocking but it's also moving, uplifting and totally unmissable" (Pam Norfolk Blackpool Gazette)

"Compulsively readable" (Books for Keeps)

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