Mission Canyon

Meg Gardiner author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Hodder & Stoughton

Published:16th Feb '04

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

Mission Canyon cover

Re-issued in the fresh new series style comes this nail-biting, high-octane thriller from the author of CHINA LAKE - 'a welcome addition to the ranks of American thriller writers', Sunday Telegraph

Evan Delaney, novelist and legal go-fer, is dressed as Diana Ross in order to crash a fancy-dress party and serve a summons, when she hears that Franklin Brand is back in town. Brand is the hit-and-run driver who sentenced Evan's lover Jesse to life in a wheelchair, and killed his best friend. Since the accident, Brand has been avoiding justice overseas; but if he's back, Evan and Jesse are determined to get him, helped by the dead boy's brother Adam. Brand had been a high-flier in Mako Technologies, a cyber-security firm, and this is where Evan starts looking. She quickly uncovers evidence that Brand was embezzling funds, and that Adam's brother knew all about it. So maybe that hit-and-run wasn't an accident at all?Then the policeman investigating is killed, and Adam and Jesse both come under suspicion. The plot has more twists, thrills and spills than a white-knuckle ride, and is complicated by the confused emotions of the main parties involved: Jesse feels a survivor's guilt; Adam resents the fact that Jesse is alive while his brother died. But there are more corpses - including a near miss for Evan herself - to come before the bad guys are finally brought to book.

Gardiner is on her way to the top. * Bookseller *
An explosive new thriller . . . a strikingly good story * Publishing News *
Very well written, racy and witty * Tangled Web *

ISBN: 9780340822524

Dimensions: 177mm x 113mm x 27mm

Weight: 230g

432 pages