From the creator of the TV show Bones comes a "riveting, smart and funny" (Harlan Coben) debut thriller. "Everything a great thriller should be--always smart, often funny, and relentlessly exciting. I loved every page."--Scott Turow Michael Skellig is a limo driver waiting for his client in the alle
The driver: a Novel
β Scribed by Hart Hanson
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 183 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
"Riveting, smart and funny,The Driver is a masterfully crafted debut."--Harlan Coben
"Everything a great thriller should be --always smart, often funny, and relentlessly exciting. I loved every page."--Scott Turow
Michael Skellig is a limo driver waiting for his client in the alley behind an upscale hotel. He's spent the past twenty-eight hours ferrying around Bismarck Avila, a celebrity skateboard mogul who isn't going home any time soon. Suddenly the wind begins to speak to Skellig in the guttural accent of the Chechen torturer he shot through the eye in Yemen a decade ago:Troubletroubletrouble. Skellig has heard these warnings before--he's an Army Special Forces sergeant whose limo company is staffed by a ragtag band of wounded veterans, including his Afghan interpreter--and he knows to listen carefully.
Skellig runs inside just in time to save Avila from two gunmen but too late for one...
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