Book description
ESCAPE THE NIGHT -a powerful novel of suspense
and scandal, of surveillance and threat, of amnesia and
obsession, of parents and children - and the long buried
secret that links them all in a deadly chain.
Peter Carey is the son of privilege - and an heir to terror.
Poised on the brink of power over a mighty family dynasty,
he is also the victim of a recurring nightmare that suddenly
becomes all too real.
The fate that claimed his parents many years before now
stalks him too. But the key to his survival lies locked deep in
Peter's own mind. And he must discover it before the final
night closes in.
Richard North Patterson's eleven novels include the international
bestsellers
Degree of Guilt, Eyes of a Child, The Final Judgment,
Silent Witness, No Safe Place
and
Dark Lady.
His novels have won the Edgar Allan Poe Award and the Grand prix de
Littérature Policière. A graduateof Ohio Wesleyan University and the
case Western Reserve School of Law, he studies creative writing with
Jesse Hill Ford at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He and his
wife, Laurie, Live with their family in San Francisco and on Martha's
Vineyard
