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When two teachers and their deaf pupils stop on an isolated road to help at a car crash, they are captured by three escaped convicts. Cold killer Lou Hardy takes his hostages to an old slaughter house, where he threatens to kill one innocent girl an hour until his demands are met.

聾学校の生徒と教員を乗せたスクールバスが、三人の脱獄囚に乗っ取られた。彼らは、廃屋同然の食肉加工場に生徒たちを監禁してたてこもる。FBI危機管理チームのポターは、万全の体制で犯人側と人質解放交渉に臨むが、無残にも生徒の一人が凶弾に倒れてしまう。一方、工場内では教育実習生のメラニーが生徒たちを救うために独力で反撃に出るが…緊迫の展開に驚愕と興奮が相次ぐ、読書界で話題独占の作家の最高傑作。

聾学校の生徒と教員を乗せたスクールバスが、カンザス州を走行中に3人の脱獄囚に乗っ取られた。彼らは食肉加工場に、生徒たちを監禁してたてこもる。人質解放交渉の知られざる実態を描いた新感覚サスペンス。 --このテキストは、絶版本またはこのタイトルには設定されていない版型に関連付けられています。

It's said that great minds think alike; apparently great thriller writers do too. Here's the second outstanding novel in as many months to see a busload of schoolchildren kidnapped by maniacs. The first was Mary Willis Walker's Under the Beetle's Cellar (Forecasts, June 12); Deaver's is equally gripping, with the added twist that these kids are deaf. In rural Kansas, an act of kindness launches a nightmare when Mrs. Harstrawn, along with hearing-impaired apprentice teacher Melanie Charrol, stops her busload of deaf schoolgirls at a car wreck, only to be taken hostage by Lou Handy and two other stone-cold killers who've just escaped from prison. Pursued by a state trooper, the captors race with their prey to an abandoned slaughterhouse. There, Arthur Potter, the FBI's foremost hostage negotiator, sets up a command post?but the nightmare intensifies when Handy releases one girl, then shoots her in the back just as she reaches the agent. After further brutalities, Melanie decides to rescue her students herself, tricking the killers with sign language games to convey her plan to her charges. Meanwhile, pressure mounts on Potter as the media get pushy, the local FBI stonewalls, Kansas State hostage rescue units try an end run to grab the glory and an assistant attorney general butts in. Deaver (Praying for Sleep) brilliantly conveys the tensions and deceit of hostage negotiations; he also proves a champion of the deaf, offering poetic insight into their world. Throughout, heartbreakingly real characters keep the wildly swerving plot from going off-track, even during the multiple-whammy twists that bring the novel, Deaver's best to date, to its spectacular finish. 200,000 first printing; $200,000 ad/promo; Literary Guild featured alternate; film rights to Interscope Communications; simultaneous Penguin Audiobook; author tour.
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"Chilling."(San Francisco Chronicle)

"Gripping" (Denver Post)

"Deaver writes the types of thrillers that would challenge even the most enthusiastic roller-coaster rider." (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

A veteran FBI agent matches wits with an escaped killer who holds eight deaf children and their teachers hostage-and has nothing left to lose...
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