Agent: Deborah Schneider, Gelfman Schneider Literary Agents. The October ListGabriela waits desperately for news of her abducted daughter. THE OCTOBER LIST by Jeffery Deaver RELEASE DATE: Oct. 1 bestselling author Jeffery Deaver has created the most riveting and original novel of the year-a race-against-the-clock mystery, told in reverse. This is brilliant craftsmanship in a vastly entertaining package. One of Kirkus Reviews 'Best Books of 2013' The shocking end is only the beginning. The finished picture finally emerges with a shock of recognition. She hesitated, then, reluctantly, she looked out again. I don’t seem to have any secrets anymore.

A mind-bending novel with twists and turns that unfold from its dramatic climax back to its surprising beginning, The October List is Jeffery Deaver at his masterful, inventive best. Everybody in the world, it seems, wants the goddamn October List How could they know you were here Gabriela gave a bitter laugh. As the ingenious plot folds back on itself, the reader has to reevaluate and reinterpret the constantly shifting “facts” in the case. She’s given an ultimatum: pay half a million dollars and find a mysterious document known as the October List within 30 hours, or she’ll never see her child again.

The ultimate thriller writer, Jeffery Deaver puts your brain - and your nerves - to the ultimate test with THE OCTOBER LIST, in a masterful mystery that unfolds from the end back to the beginning with many a breath-taking twist along the way. Gabriela must not only pay a $500,000 ransom but also fork over the mysterious “October List,” which belongs to her former boss Charles Prescott, the head of Prescott Investments, who has fled from a police investigation. To know what happened, you must work backwards, piecing together the events that came before. In the first chapter, office manager Gabriela McKenzie, whose six-year-old daughter, Sarah, has been kidnapped, waits in her Manhattan apartment for news from fund manager Daniel Reardon, who’s attempting to deal with kidnapper Joseph Astor. Thriller Award–winner Deaver (Edge) delivers a clever, demanding stand-alone that moves backward in time over the span of a three-day weekend, from Sunday evening to early Friday morning.

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