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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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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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BN ID: | 2940169354195 |
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Publisher: | Penguin Random House |
Publication date: | 05/19/2009 |
Edition description: | Unabridged |
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