Synopses & Reviews
From the author of the
New York Times-bestselling and Edgar Award-winning
The Expats As dawn approaches in New York, literary agent Isabel Reed is turning the final pages of a mysterious, anonymous manuscript, racing through the explosive revelations about powerful people, as well as long-hidden secrets about her own past. In Copenhagen, veteran CIA operative Hayden Gray, determined that this sweeping story be buried, is suddenly staring down the barrel of an unexpected gun. And in Zurich, the author himself is hiding in a shadowy expat life, trying to atone for a lifetime’s worth of lies and betrayals with publication of The Accident, while always looking over his shoulder.
Over the course of one long, desperate, increasingly perilous day, these lives collide as the book begins its dangerous march toward publication, toward saving or ruining careers and companies, placing everything at risk — and everyone in mortal peril. The rich cast of characters — in publishing and film, politics and espionage — are all forced to confront the consequences of their ambitions, the schisms between their ideal selves and the people they actually became.
The action rockets around Europe and across America, with an intricate web of duplicities stretching back a quarter-century to a dark winding road in upstate New York, where the shocking truth about the accident itself is buried.
Gripping, sophisticated, layered, and impossible to put down, The Accident proves once again that Chris Pavone is a true master of suspense.
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“[Pavone is] a reliable new must-read in the world of thrillers....You will want to finish The Accident at a nice, rapid clip to see how [the] pieces come together....Unputdownable.” The New York Times
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“Savvy....[With] plenty of swift action and sudden twists.” Wall Street Journal
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“The thriller-of-the-year....Pavone’s characters seem genuine, with some flaws in the good guys and some virtues in the bad guys.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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“Maximum enjoyment at maximum speed.” Dallas Morning News
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“A propulsive A-train of a thrill ride and worthy successor to Pavone’s debut.” Los Angeles Times
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“[A] high-wire thriller....The suspense is palpable.” Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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“Pavone’s plot twists tirelessly, shifting focus among a large cast of well-drawn characters...many readers will read this one through the night.” Booklist (starred review)
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“[An] engaging thriller, driven by compelling portraits of desperate characters.” Library Journal
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“Pavone knows the formula for a best-seller and keeps the reader turning the pages.” Kirkus
About the Author
Chris Pavone's novel The Expats was a New York Times, USA Today, and international bestseller, and winner of Edgar and Anthony awards for best first novel. Chris grew up in Brooklyn, graduated from Cornell, and was a book editor for nearly two decades, as well as an expat in Luxembourg, but now lives again in New York City with his wife and children. The Accident is his second novel.