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High Noon
by Nora Roberts
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ISBN13: 9780399154348 |
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Synopses & Reviews
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Police Lieutenant Phoebe MacNamara found her calling at an early age when an unstable man broke into her family's home, trapping and terrorizing them for hours. Now she's Savannah's top hostage negotiator, defusing powderkeg situations with a talent for knowing when to give in-andwhen to jump in and take action. It's satisfying work-and sometimes those skills come in handy at home dealing with her agoraphobic mother, still traumatized by the break-in after all these years, and her precocious seven-year-old, Carly.
It's exactly that heady combination of steely courage and sensitivity that first attracts Duncan Swift to Phoebe. After observing her coax one of his employees down from a roof ledge, he is committed to keeping this intriguing, take-charge woman in his life. She's used to working solo, but Phoebe's discovering that no amount of negotiation can keep Duncan at arm's length.
And when she's grabbed by a man who throws a hood over her head and brutally assaults her — in her own precinct house — Phoebe can't help but be deeply shaken. Then threatening messages show up on her doorstep, and she's not just alarmed but frustrated. How do you go face-to-face with an opponent who refuses to look you in the eye?
Now, with Duncan backing her up every step of the way, she must establish contact with the faceless tormentor who is determined to make her a hostage to fear...before she becomes the final showdown.
Review:
"At the start of this scintillating slice of romantic suspense from prolific bestseller Roberts (Sweet Revenge), Lt. Phoebe MacNamara, the chief hostage negotiator for the Savannah, Ga., PD, meets Duncan Swift, a sports bar owner, as they both try to prevent a suicidal bartender Duncan fired from jumping off a roof on St. Patrick's Day. In the aftermath, a romance develops between Phoebe and Duncan, though in typical Roberts style the enigmatic Phoebe's devotion to career and family, who include a young daughter and an agoraphobic mother, creates tension in their relationship. After Phoebe survives a vicious attack within her own precinct house by an unknown assailant, it becomes clear that someone is intent on harming Phoebe and those close to her. A courageous protagonist, deft plotting and the sultry Savannah backdrop all add up to another winner for consummate storyteller Roberts." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)
Review:
"'At the start of this scintillating slice of romantic suspense from prolific bestseller Roberts (Sweet Revenge), Lt. Phoebe MacNamara, the chief hostage negotiator for the Savannah, Ga., PD, meets Duncan Swift, a sports bar owner, as they both try to prevent a suicidal bartender Duncan fired from jumping off a roof on St. Patrick's Day. In the aftermath, a romance develops between Phoebe and Duncan, though in typical Roberts style the enigmatic Phoebe's devotion to career and family, who include a young daughter and an agoraphobic mother, creates tension in their relationship. After Phoebe survives a vicious attack within her own precinct house by an unknown assailant, it becomes clear that someone is intent on harming Phoebe and those close to her. A courageous protagonist, deft plotting and the sultry Savannah backdrop all add up to another winner for consummate storyteller Roberts. (July)' Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)" Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)
Review:
"[T]his fast-paced and thoroughly entertaining novel delivers everything fans have come to expect from one of the best writers of romantic suspense out there." Library Journal
About the Author
Nora Roberts is the number-one New York Times-bestselling author of more than 150 novels. Under the pen name J. D. Robb, she is the author of the futuristic suspense In Death series, featuring Lieutenant Eve Dallas and Roarke. With more than 280 million copies of her books in print, Roberts has had more than one hundred bestsellers on the New York Times list.
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Harriett, November 14, 2007 (view all comments by Harriett)
Prolific and Bestselling, and deservedly prize winning as an author, Nora Roberts has in this book turned her attention to the difficulties of women in another of the careers in which women must be extra tough to enter and stay in and succeed. In this exciting novel, that career is the stress and drama of being an officer in the police division that deals with hostage situations. The heroine, herself at one time a child-hostage, faces not only the emotional ordeals of hostage negotiations, the politics of the police department, and the chauvinism of the men she works with, she must also deal with her life as the lynchpin and support of her multigenerational family. She must cope with life as a single mother, as her mother's daughter, and her own inner life as a woman falling in love, reluctantly, again. Here she finds herself under a life threatening personal siege, for a fast-paced and dramatic story that climaxes in the heat of a Savannah summer.
Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780399154348
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Putnam Publishing Group
- Author:
- Subject:
- Romance - Suspense
- Subject:
- Hostage negotiations.
- Publication Date:
- July 2007
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 480
- Dimensions:
- 9.30x6.36x1.46 in. 1.52 lbs.
