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The Worst Thing Mass market paperbound - 2012
by Aaron Elkins
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From the Edgar Award-winning creator of Gideon Oliver, the Skeleton Detective, comes an exciting, new stand-alone mystery about a man who must face his worst fears head on. OOne whopper of a surprise ending . . . This may well be [Elkins'] best book.O--"Booklist."
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For Bryan Bennett, designing hostage negotiation programs is the perfect job—as long as he doesn’t deal directly with kidnappers or their victims. Intense nightmares of his own abduction and imprisonment as a small boy still plague him thirty-some years later, and claustrophobia prevents him from attempting to travel.
So when Bryan’s boss asks him to fly to Reykjavik to teach his corporate-level kidnapping and extortion seminar, he initially refuses. But a CEO has specifically requested Bryan—or no one else. Finally Bryan relents…
For decades he’s treaded gingerly around his deepest terrors. Now, on this trip, Bryan’s taken hostage again and must face his fears full-on. Will he realize that in this battle of will and nerve, he is his own greatest enemy? Or has this fight already been lost years ago?
So when Bryan’s boss asks him to fly to Reykjavik to teach his corporate-level kidnapping and extortion seminar, he initially refuses. But a CEO has specifically requested Bryan—or no one else. Finally Bryan relents…
For decades he’s treaded gingerly around his deepest terrors. Now, on this trip, Bryan’s taken hostage again and must face his fears full-on. Will he realize that in this battle of will and nerve, he is his own greatest enemy? Or has this fight already been lost years ago?
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- Title The Worst Thing
- Author Aaron Elkins
- Binding Mass Market Paperbound
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Berkley Books, U.S.A.
- Publication date 2012-08-07
- ISBN 9780425251447 / 0425251446
- Weight 0.32 lbs (0.15 kg)
- Dimensions 6.82 x 4.25 x 0.96 in (17.32 x 10.80 x 2.44 cm)
- Age range 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Category Fiction - Mystery/ Detective
- Library of Congress subjects Mystery fiction, Forensic anthropologists
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2010050228
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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