The October list
Subtitle: a novel in reverse
By: Jeffery Deaver ; with photographs by the author
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9781444780444; 9781444780437
Subjects: Fiction; Kidnapping; Corrupt practices; Women executives; Securities industry
Description: ""Gabriela McKenzie's daughter has been kidnapped. In exchange for her safe return, her abductors demand two things: $400,000 in cash, and a document known only as the October List."--Provided by the publisher.
Table of contents: title: Gabrielle is sitting in an apartment in Manhattan, watching the clock. Her daughter has been kidnapped, she's shot and killed a man, she is trying to evade the police and negotiate with the kidnapper, a stone-cold killer. He wants the October List, and he wants money. The doorbell rings ... That is the end of Gabrielle's story, and the first chapter of this extraordinary novel by the world's best thriller writer Jeffery Deaver. The next chapter is the scene which came before, and what follows is the what happened before that. Deaver's breathtakingly clever new thriller is guaranteed to keep you gripped to the final page; title: where you find out the beginning ...