Standoff

by Brown, Sandra

• ISBN13: 9780446527019
• ISBN10: 0446527017
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-05-02
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Summary

An ambitious female television reporter is driving through New Mexico when she hears that a Texas millionaires teenage daughter has been kidnapped. Knowing that the girls father lives nearby, she quickly lines up an interview. Stopping at a convenience store to make a call, the kidnapper and his willing victim take her hostage along with several others. The stakes are raised considerably when the FBI surrounds the building full of hostages, and the reporter must keep everyone alive and deliver the truth behind the headlines to the publicbefore a volatile standoff turns to tragedy. Sandra Browns most recent hardcover, The Alibi (Warner, 9/99), debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list, had a first printing of nearly 500,000 copies, and received positive reviews from Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews, among others. Unspeakable (Warner, 6/98) netted nearly 300,000 hardcover copies, stayed on the New York Times bestseller list for eight weeks. Unspeakable was published in Warner paperback in 9/99 and has been on the New York Times bestseller list for five weeks and counting, peaking at #2. It has 1.4 million copies in print. Standoff is a selection of the Literary Guild and of Doubleday Book Club. Praise for The Alibi: The Alibi shows that Sandra Brown has what it takes to churn out a good mystery. Ü The Hamilton Spectator Undoubtedly another bestseller Brown has a gift for taut pacing A web of labyrinthine relationships becomes ever more intricate until the identity of the killer is revealed, a shock that would be implausible in a less carefully constructed tale. Ü Publishers Weekly The Alibi is a powerful story of jealousy, corruption and intrigue Ü The Ottawa Citizen

Author Biography

Sandra Brown is the author of seventy-two New York Times bestsellers. There are over eighty million copies of her books in print worldwide, and her work has been translated into thirty-four languages. She lives in Texas. For more information you can visit www.SandraBrown.net.