The October List: (Novel is in reverse begins with chapter 24) - Hardcover

Deaver, Jeffery

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1455576646 ISBN 13: 9781455576647

Publisher: Grand Central Pub, 2013

Synopsis

A woman tries to evade the police while negotiating with the kidnapper who took her daughter in this new thriller from the New York Times best-selling author of The Bone Collector. 300,000 first printing.

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Review:

A clever, demanding stand-alone . . . As the ingenious plot folds back on itself, the reader has to reevaluate and reinterpret the constantly shifting "facts" in the case. The finished picture finally emerges with a shock of recognition. This is brilliant craftsmanship in a vastly entertaining package. (Publishers Weekly)

Jeffery Deaver's most fiendish thriller ever . . . The reader is never lied to in Deaver's brilliant shell game, merely misdirected, and the best part of this trick is that despite being in on the game, we continue to make false assumptions . . . as the pace quickens and the story continues to backtrack, solid evidence, established plot points and sturdily built characters all begin to come undone, until what started out as an interactive game becomes a truly unnerving exercise in deception. (New York Times)

In THE OCTOBER LIST, the always entertaining Jeffery Deaver attempts the almost impossible: the back-to-front thriller, beginning with its climax and ending with the planning of the initial crime . . . It's very readable (The Times)

Even halfway through, it seems possible that Deaver has been defeated by the mind-boggling technical challenge of delivering surprises in back-to-front time. But after the reverse journey reaches the couple's first meeting, his gamble is thoroughly vindicated by a series of twists in which he resembles a conjuror who each time seems to have performed his final trick, but then tops it. (Sunday Times)

This will keep you gripped right to the last page (Press Association)

Praise for master thriller writer Deaver (:)

'Devious, diabolical and devilish ' (New York Times)

The most creative, skilled and intriguing thriller writer in the world (Daily Telegraph)

Deaver writes crime fiction - thrillers you want to race through - and he's bloody good (The Big Issue)

Sometimes the purest escapism can only be found in a knuckle-bleaching thriller that messes with your blood pressure. This is a job for Jeffery Deaver (Saga Magazine)

It's everything we've come to expect from a man at the top of his game . . . a great read (Sun)

Deaver dispenses expository bits and cliffhangers with a mastery that'll make you smile even more broadly after you realize how thoroughly you've been hoodwinked. Perhaps the cleverest of all Deaver's exceptionally clever thrillers. If you've ever wished you could take the film Memento to the beach, here's your chance. (Kirkus reviews)

Book Description:

Jeffery Deaver's extraordinary new standalone thriller begins with his most amazing twist - the book's ending...

About this edition

• Publisher: Grand Central Pub
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1455576646
• ISBN 13: 9781455576647
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 308