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Michael Robotham
Life or Death
Nominiert: CWA Goldsboro Gold Dagger 2015, Nominiert: Edgar Award for Best Novel 2016
repr. 2016. 528 S. 130 x 200 mm
Verlag/Jahr: LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP; SPHERE 2016
ISBN: 0-7515-5291-7 (0751552917)
Neue ISBN: 978-0-7515-5291-1 (9780751552911)
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The Shawshank Redemption meets No Country for Old Men in the breathtaking new thriller from international bestseller Michael Robotham
The Shawshank Redemption meets No Country for Old Men in the breathtaking new novel from international bestseller Michael Robotham -- already receiving rave reviews, this is the most original, compelling thriller you´ll read all year and winner of the CWA Gold Dagger Award 2015.Why would a man escape from prison the day before he´s due to be released?
Audie Palmer has spent a decade in prison for an armed robbery in which four people died, including two of the gang. Seven million dollars has never been recovered and everybody believes that Audie knows where the money is.
For ten years he has been beaten, stabbed, throttled and threatened almost daily by prison guards, inmates and criminal gangs, who all want to answer this same question, but suddenly Audie vanishes, the day before he´s due to be released.
Everybody wants to find Audie, but he´s not running. Instead he´s trying to save a life . . . and not just his own.
I love this guy´s books. Try this one and you´ll see why Lee Child
Robotham, Michael
Before becoming a novelist, Michael Robotham was an investigative journalist working across America, Australia and Britain. As a journalist and writer he has investigated notorious cases such as the serial killer couple Fred and Rosemary West. He has worked with clinical and forensic psychologists as they helped police investigate complex, psychologically driven crimes.
Michael´s 2004 debut thriller, The Suspect, sold more than 1 million copies around the world. It is the first of eight novels featuring clinical psychologist Joe O´Loughlin, who faces his own increasing battle with a potentially debilitating disease. Michael has also written four standalone thrillers. In 2015 he won the UK´s prestigious Crime Writers´ Association Gold Dagger Award with his standalone thriller Life or Death.
He lives in Sydney.