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Hostage / Robert Crais.

Crais, Robert. (Author).

Summary:

An ex-con with delusions of grandeur and his tagalong brother unwittingly team up with a psychopath one wrong word away from meltdown. When their late afternoon joyride turns into a random act of violence, they take a family hostage in the affluent bedroom community of Bristo Camino. Enter Chief of Police Jeff Talley, a stressed-out former LAPD SWAT negotiator who is hiding from his past. Plunged back into the high-pressure world that he desperately wants to forget, Talley soon learns that his nightmare has only begun. The hostages are not who they seem, and the home contains secrets that even L.A.'s most lethal and volatile crime lord, Sonny Benza, fears. As Talley tries to hold himself together and save the people inside, the full weight of Benza's wrath descends on him, putting the police chief and his own family at risk. Soon, all involved are held hostage by the exigencies of fate and the only one capable of diffusing the standoff is the least stable of them all.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0345434498
  • ISBN: 0385495854
  • ISBN: 9780385495851
  • ISBN: 9781984818737
  • ISBN: 1587240769
  • Physical Description: 373 pages ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Doubleday, 2001.
Subject:
Hostage negotiations > Fiction.
Police > California, Southern > Fiction.
Police.
California, Southern > Fiction.
Genre:
Detective and mystery fiction.
Gangster fiction.

Available copies

  • 66 of 69 copies available at NC Cardinal.
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Madison County Public Library. (Show)

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 69 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Mars Hill Library FIC CRA (Text) 30229100478576 Adult Fiction Available -
Albemarle Main Library FIC Crais (Text) 31010000626095 Adult Fiction Available -
Alexander Main Library M Crais (Text) 34269000822388 Adult Fiction Available -
Alleghany Public Library F CRAIS (Text) 40599000432107 Adult Fiction Available -
Avery County Morrison Public Library FIC CRA (Text) 31111001747275 Adult Fiction Available -
Bath Community Library FIC (Text) 38344100946357 Adult Fiction Available -
Beaufort Main F CRA (Text) 34208200538501 Adult Fiction Available -
Bladen Main Branch FIC CRA (Text) 30441100183847 Adult Fiction Available -
Braswell Memorial Main Library FIC Crais (Text) 540191010013144 Adult Fiction Available -
Bunn Branch F/Crais (Text) 72350000092900 Adult Fiction Available -