Hostage - Hardcover

Zimmerman, R. D.

 
9780385319836: Hostage

Synopsis

The third of the author's novels featuring Todd Mills finds the gay television anchor covering a trio of unlikely terrorists who, driven mad by AIDS, kidnap a politician and threaten to infect him with the virus. Tour.

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About the Author

Award-winning author R.D.  Zimmerman has been nominated for two Edgars, two Lambda Literary Awards, and an Anthony.  He has written ten previous novels, including Tribe and Closet (1996 Lambda Literary Award winner) in the Todd Mills series, six children's books, and created six bestselling mystery jigsaw puzzles.  Raised in Chicago, he now lives in Minneapolis.

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p of his career--until the unthinkable happens.

Todd Mills, Minneapolis's only openly gay journalist, is getting ready for what promises to be an explosive television event: an exclusive interview with Congressman Johnny Clariton, a conservative whose vehement opposition to gay rights and AIDS research has fueled his rapid political ascent.

But coup turns to chaos when Todd's interview is abruptly ended by three gun-wielding kidnappers--an unlikely trio of domestic terrorists in the final stages of AIDS. With Todd as their conduit to a global audience, the abductors are willing to risk what's left of their lives to give violent expression to their AIDS rage.

Their goal: to make the world know what it's like to live--and die--with AIDS.

Their weapons: a video camera, a hostage, and a syringe full of blood.

While the increasingly desperate events play out on television for the world to see, Todd's relationship with homicide inve

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ISBN 10:  0385318928 ISBN 13:  9780385318921
Publisher: Random House, Inc., 2008
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