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2022-09-01
Reckoning
Catherine Coulter
William Morrow
August 2022
425 pp
書籍編號:
01-30574
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● 內文簡介

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千萬暢銷作家Catherine Coulter最新FBI犯罪驚悚神作——深繪兩位女性的生命掙扎,探員的機警與人性。

12歲那年,女孩綺拉.曼達里安(Kirra Mandarian)的父母遭到謀殺,她則成了悲劇中的唯一倖存者。14年後,有所成就的綺拉成為一名律師,回到了她位於維吉尼亞州富蘭克林市的老家。她唯一的目標,就是找回當年謀害父母的殺人兇手,疑似一位名叫艾略特.奈斯(E.N./ Eliot Ness)的男子。然而綺拉迅速意識到,手無寸鐵的自己終究敵不過萬惡的不良份子。她找來了偵探薩維奇(Savich)、漢默史密斯(Hammersmith),以及梭普(Thorpe)的幫忙;而梭普正是多年前曾拯救過綺拉的年輕中尉。

故事的另一頭,鋼琴神童艾瑪.杭特(Emma Hunt)在6歲那年遭遇綁架,所幸得到法官拉姆齊.杭特(Ramsey Hunt)的解救。拉姆齊成了艾瑪的養父將她拉拔長大,12歲這年,艾瑪已擁有跆拳道黑帶的敏捷身手。然而危難依舊糾纏著她,她逃掉了舊金山路易斯戴維斯交響樂廳的綁架危機,接著來到華盛頓特區的約翰.甘迺迪藝術中心,即便有家人全程陪伴,有偵探和警員待命堅守,更重大的命運關卡,才正要揭開序幕。

《清算》(Reckoning)以兩位女主角交錯的敘事,節奏明快地描繪出女性背負親情與夢想,也願意直面對決恐懼與生死關頭的韌性。隨著FBI的介入探查,這部作品猶如紙上電影一般,在文字組織的情節中綻放火花與生命力。

 

● 作者簡介

Catherine Coulter,千萬暢銷作家。Coulter的作品曾以六位數美金授權影視版權,《書目》雜誌稱她為「於各文學領域皆耀眼綻放的寫作之星」(A Genre Star)。她著有超過85部小說,其中FBI犯罪驚悚小說為最知名系列之一。Coulter目前與丈夫、名為珮頓及艾利的兩隻貓咪住在加州索薩利托(Sausalito)。

 

● 媒體報導

“Pulse-pounding terror mixed with romance makes for page-turning pleasure.”—Kirkus Reviews

“The twenty-sixth installment of Coulter's FBI series delivers just what the author's fans have come to expect: a story that doesn’t go where we might expect it to; a supporting cast of new and exciting characters; and two familiar faces, Savich and Sherlock, who have come to feel like old friends.”—Library Journal

“A missing person’s case kicks off bestseller Coulter’s nail-biting 25th FBI thriller… Coulter does her usual fine job of building suspense by shifting between the parallel narratives. This long-running thriller series shows no sign of losing steam.”—Publishers Weekly on Vortex

“If you are looking for a roller coaster, highly emotional ride then you will really want to sit down with Vortex in your hands…Vortex—by definition is a ‘whirling mass like a whirlpool or whirlwind’ and Catherine Coulter knows how to catch her readers in one…As always with Ms. Coulter’s books, Vortex will captivate and fascinate.”—Fresh Fiction

“Coulter is always good, but in Vortex she uses her considerable talents to spin a complex tale of escalating stakes in a full-bore thriller that is not to be missed.”—Providence Journal

“Coulter… knows who her characters are, and what motivates them, and she knows what kind of adversary to put up against them… [The FBI novels] are suspenseful and surprising, and they have earned their large following. Vortex will be received enthusiastically.”—Booklist

“Seductive and menacing… [Enigma] sets new standards to judge thrillers. It’s a thriller most people would like to finish in one sitting…. Intense and packed with the action and inventive fantasy Catherine Coulter is known for.”

—Washington Post Book Review