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The second hostage : a Colter Shaw short story

Deaver, Jeffery (author.).

Summary: Colter Shaw is a career "reward-seeker," making his living locating missing persons and collecting reward money in return. In the course of his search for a missing woman, he visits the police station in the small Kansas town of Humble, and, is pulled into a puzzling case. A man is holding a hostage in a lakeside cabin, and the Humble police need Shaw's experience and know-how to assess the situation, and the captor's motives. As Shaw begins negotiating, he begins to realize that nothing about the hostage situation is as it seems, including the hostage himself.

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  • ISBN: 0593188209
  • ISBN: 9780593188200
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource.
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  • Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2020].

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Subject: Missing persons Investigation Fiction
Hostage negotiations Fiction
Kansas Fiction
Genre: Electronic books.
Thrillers (Fiction)
Detective and mystery fiction.
Suspense fiction.
Mystery fiction.

Jeffery Deaver is the #1 international bestselling author of more than forty novels, three collections of short stories, and a nonfiction law book. His books are sold in 150 countries and translated into 25 languages. His first novel featuring Lincoln Rhyme, The Bone Collector, was made into a major motion picture starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. He's received or been shortlisted for a number of awards around the world, including Novel of the Year by the International Thriller Writers and the Steel Dagger from the Crime Writers' Association in the United Kingdom. In 2014, he was the recipient of three lifetime achievement awards. A former journalist, folksinger, and attorney, he was born outside of Chicago and has a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Missouri and a law degree from Fordham University.


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