Caller Unknown: A Novel

ISBN: 0063338475

Author: McAllister, Gillian

Condition: New

Only a Gillian McAllister thriller can make your heart race and then your heart melt from one page to the next! Im a devoted fan! -Liane Moriarty, #1 New York Times bestselling authorHow far would you go to rescue your child? A mother races against the clock-and finds herself on the wrong side of the law-in a desperate fight to save her teenage daughter in this pulse-pounding thriller from the author of Reeses Book Club Pick and New York Times bestseller Wrong Place Wrong Time.There is nothing that Simone wont do for her daughter, Lucy. The two have always been close, and with Lucy about to leave home for university, they depart the UK for a vacation to Texas to spend some quality time together. But when Simone awakens on their first morning in the desert, Lucy is gone, missing from their rental cabin. In her place is a cell phone, and a voice on the other line issues a shocking ransom demand. Dont tell the police. Come to this location. And be prepared to do a dealThough Simones husband urges her to bring in the authorities for help, she knows she cant take any chances. The kidnappers might kill Lucy if she tells anyone. No mother would take that risk. Instead, that night, she drives to the isolated meet-up.What she finds there changes everything. The mysterious kidnapper doesnt want money. They want Simone to do something. The unthinkable.A catastrophic chain of events is set in motion, with chilling consequences that extend beyond Simone and her family. What follows is a heart-pounding journey through the small towns and punishing deserts of remote Texas, in which Simones courage-and morality-is pushed to the brink as she discovers what it truly means to be a mother.Unbearably tense, compassionately told, and full of well-crafted moral dilemmas, Caller Unknown proves once again why Gillian McAllisters thrillers are the best of the best (Lisa Jewell).