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Alice in Jeopardy

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6th March 2014

Price: £12.99

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Selected: ebook / ISBN-13: 9781471914683

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Superbly gripping plot-twister of a novel from the crime master himself, Ed McBain.
‘He’s right at the top of the premier league of crime fiction’ DAILY MIRROR

Alice is a recently widowed young woman living in Florida with her two small children. Utterly devastated by her late husband’s death in a boating accident, she is struggling to re-build her life. And as if life can’t get any worse, her children are kidnapped. Surrounded by police fighting inter-departmental battles, Alice ultimately has to resort to finding and saving her children herself.

ALICE IN JEOPARDY is a truly gripping book, absolutely jam-packed with twists and turns, culminating in a totally unexpected ending.

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LITERARY REVIEW
McBain back on zestful, inventive and utterly compulsive form ... so topical that it practically sprints from the page
THE TIMES
McBain is a perennial cause for rejoicing
TRIBUNE
McBain throws in switchback plot twists and false leads like the consummate pro he is and ALICE IN JEOPARDY is a terrific page-turner
GUARDIAN
Brilliant stuff ... McBain's genius lies in his uncanny dialogue, his intelligent characters, clever plots and the way he can portray the human side of law agency procedures
MIRROR
He's right at the top of the premier league of crime fiction
IRISH TIMES
McBain, the old pro, cranks up the tension to breaking point ... One can only sit back and admire