Book description
A fearless reporter trapped in a volatile siege, two young lovers
turned fugitive and a hold up that transforms a small desert town into a
powder keg . . . TV reporter Tiel McCoy is driving to New Mexico for a
well-earned vacation when she hears on the radio that Fort Worth
millionaire Russell Dendy's daughter has been kidnapped. Calling her
editor she finds out that the girl is pregnant, the kidnapper is the
girl's boyfriend and that they may be heading, as she is, to a small
town in New Mexico. She puts her holiday plans on hold to chase the
story but as she stops for gas she gets caught up in a standoff at a gas
station. If she survives she knows this will be the biggest scoop of her
life. But as the night-long siege continues she is forced to put aside
her reporter's impartiality and become involved . . . or lives will be
lost. Sandra Brown is the author of fifty-six New York Times
bestsellers, most recently PLAY DIRTY which was published in August 2007
by Simon & Schuster and debuted at number two on the New York Times
hardcover fiction bestseller list. Her other recent bestsellers include
RICOCHET (2006), CHILL FACTOR(2005), WHITE HOT(2004), HELLO,
DARKNESS(2003), THE CRUSH(2002), ENVY (2001), all of which have jumped
onto the
Times
bestseller list in the number one to five spot. Her new novel SMOKE
SCREEN will be published on August 12, 2008. Brown began her writing
career in 1981 and since then has published nearly seventy novels, most
of which remain in print. As of 1990, when Mirror Image
made The New York Times
bestseller list, each subsequent novel, including reprints of earlier
books, have become Times
bestsellers. Her novel THE WITNESS was recently optioned by Twinstar
Entertainment for a major motion picture. Brown now has seventy million
copies of her books in print worldwide, and her work has been translated
into thirty-three languages. A lifelong Texan, Sandra Brown was born in
Waco and raised in Ft. Worth. Before embarking on her writing career,
she worked as a model at the Dallas Apparel Mart, and in television,
including weathercasting for WFAA-TV in Dallas, and feature reporting on
the nationally syndicated program PM Magazine
. She is much in demand as a speaker at book festivals and charity
functions throughout the year.
