Everything To Lose: A Novel [Large Print]

Description

A determined, (down on her luck,) mother caring for her handicapped son becomes entangled in a murderous conspiracy to keep a twenty year old secret buried in this blistering thriller, set during the tragic aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, from Andrew Gross, the New York Times bestselling author of 15 Seconds and No Way Back. While driving along a suburban back road, Hilary Blum, who's just lost her job and whose deadbeat husband has left her alone to care for her son with Asperger's, witnesses a freakish accident. A car ahead of her careens down a hill and slams into a tree. Stopping to help, she discovers the driver dead-and a satchel stuffed with a half a million dollars. That money could prevent her family's ruin and keep her special needs son in school. In an instant, this honest, achieving woman who has always done the responsible thing makes a decision that puts her in the center of maelstrom of dark consequences and life-threatening recriminations-a terrifying scheme involving a twenty-year-old murder, an old woman who's life has been washed out to sea, and a powerful figure bent to keep the secret that can destroy him hidden. With everything to lose, everything she loves, Hilary connects to a determined cop from Staten Island, reeling from the disaster of Sandy, to bring down an enemy who will stop at nothing to keep what that money was meant to silence, still buried.

Before turning to full-time writing, Andrew Gross was an executive in the sportswear business. Andrew has co-authored 5 novels with James Patterson, all of them reaching Number One in the NY Times Bestseller list. His first novel The Blue Zone was an instant UK bestseller. He currently lives in New York with his wife, Lynn and has three children.

"The reader will develop an emotional attachment to the heroine and hope she finds a way to save herself...very clever." -- RT Book Reviews "Heart-stopping climax." -- Publishers Weekly "A tightly wound, realistic thriller." -- Kirkus Reviews "[T]he characters... are beautifully, acutely, and sympathetically drawn.... [Gross is] a terrific story-teller and an astute observer of the best and worst of human nature. And those qualities are brilliantly illuminated in Everything to Lose." -- Examiner.com "Sets a new high bar for this master of the high octane thriller." -- Hearst Connecticut Media "A fast read with twists, crime, history and motion." -- About.com "[A] one-sitting, nail-biting chronicle of how one bad decision can lead to destruction." -- Richmond Times-Dispatch "A First class book that the reader will not want to put down." -- Military Press "A realistically creepy plot that delivers myriad logical and exciting twists." -- SouthFlorida.com "Loved every word of the book as I tore through in one sitting... Enjoy this wild ride." -- Bookreporter.com "A realistically creepy plot that delivers myriad logical and exciting twists." -- San Angelo Standard Times "A first class read." -- Suspense Magazine