Want You Gone (Jack Parlabane) - Softcover

Chris Brookmyre

4.23

2,067 ratings by Goodreads

9781408707180: Want You Gone (Jack Parlabane)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1408707187 ISBN 13: 9781408707180

Publisher: Little, Brown, 2017

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From the award-winning, million-selling author of Black Widow comes a twist-filled story of secrets and lies.

What if your deepest secret was revealed?

Sam Morpeth is growing up way too fast, left to fend for a younger sister when their mother goes to prison and watching her dreams of university evaporate. But Sam learns what it is to be truly powerless when a stranger begins to blackmail her.

Who would you turn to?

Meanwhile, reporter Jack Parlabane has finally got his career back on track, but his success has left him indebted to a volatile, criminal source. Now that debt is being called in, and it could cost him everything.

What would you be capable of?

Thrown together by a vindictive and mysterious mutual enemy, Sam and Jack are about to discover they might be each other's only hope.

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Review:

A thriller combining its author's storytelling verve with a bravura display of technical know-how. (Thriller of the Month) (Sunday Times)

Chris Brookmyre has scaled new heights of invention. (TLS)

One of the most ingenious thrillers I've read in a long time. (Washington Post)

Want You Gone is vintage Brookmyre - equal parts adrenaline and empathy, a plot that opens out like a Japanese flower dropped in hot water, and characters so real you want to reach through the page and save them. (Diana Gabaldon)

A sharp and funny writer (Carl Hiaasen)

Entertaining... nothing is allowed to sap the pace of the action. (Scotsman)

This book's a rush. (Peterborough Telegraph)

[A] fast-paced, action-packed, twisty thriller . . . expect tension, suspense, impeccable plotting and scary possibilities. (Choice)

The most compelling thriller I've read all year (John Gilstrap)

Pure literary dynamite (Lorenzo Carcaterra, author of Sleepers and The Wolf)

Book Description:

Want You Gone is the superb new psychological thriller from million-plus bestseller Chris Brookmyre - perfect for readers of The Girl on the Train.

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