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The author and heroine of The Red Scream return in a novel so terrifying, so filled with squirming suspense, it's bound for the bestseller lists. When Kirkus Reviews greeted Mary Willis Walker's last book, The Red Scream, with "welcome to the big time," they weren't kidding. That novel established Walker as an author with "the kind of clout that sets publishers' mouths watering" (The Philadelphia Inquirer). And now she has done it again, with an unforgettable tale ripped from the headlines and more terrifying than our worst nightmares. Kidnapped by a cult of religious fanatics, an Austin school bus driver and eleven of his young charges have been held underground at the group's highly fortified compound for forty-six days. While a team of federal negotiators begins to lose all hope of rescuing the hostages, crime reporter Molly Cates sets outto discover everything she can about the cult's iron-willed leader, Samuel Mordecai. And as the clock ticks inexorably, she takes the role of Clarisse Starling opposite Mordecai's Hannibal Lecter, engaging in a psychological confrontation as harrowing as any in The Silence Of The Lambs. Tough, terrifying, and relentlessly heart-wrenching, this is a novel whose images no reader will ever forget.
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‘Nail-biting suspense from the first page, masterfully extended to the last
‘ Kirkus Reviews
‘A knockout novel. With unerring pacing... Walker leads up to her superbly orchestrated final act, which will leave readers cheering, weeping and gasping for breath’
Publishers Weekly
‘An instant classic in mystery and suspense. The best chiller-thriller of the year’
James Patterson
‘A kidnap story of rare intensity and mounting tension’
Irish Times
‘Above them the wood cover was slid into place. The space they stood in seemed to shrink. They were sealed into a pit with the smell of rotting earth...’
For forty-six days, bus driver Walter Demming and eleven schoolchildren have been buried underground, held captive in the fortified compound of a fundamentalist cult. Deprived of daylight, fresh air and contact with the outside world, they endure the terrifying rants of the cult’s leader, the charismatic Samuel Mordecai. He joyfully predicts the arrival of the Apocalypse – in exactly five days’ time.
All attempts at negotiations have failed. Enter tenacious crime reporter Molly Cates, the only journalist ever to have interviewed Mordecai. It was the worst assignment of her life – until this one. She has gained his trust before, and she must try again. But this time the stakes are impossibly high. And she has just five days...
PRAISE FOR THE AWARD WINNING MARY WILLIS WALKER
“A kidnap story of rare intesity and mounting tension... a superb suspense thriller.”
IRISH TIMES
“A knockout novel ... which will leave readers cheering, weeping and gasping for breath”
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
“Nail-biting suspense from the first page, masterfully extended to the last”
KIRKUS REVIEWS
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- PublisherBantam Books (Mm)
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 9994637126
- ISBN 13 9789994637126
- BindingPaperback
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