Crying Wolf, Peter Abrahams
Crying Wolf, Peter Abrahams
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Crying Wolf

Author: Peter Abrahams

Narrator: James Daniels

Unabridged: 9 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 09/17/2008


Synopsis

It was more than a white lie. It was deception on a grand scale. But the motive was admirable—to save the bright future of a deserving young man. And the victim, too, was deserving—an arrogant billionaire who would hardly notice his loss, crumbs from a vast fortune. All the plotters needed was a believable story, desperate and frightening, but false. Nothing bad was supposed to happen. They were only crying wolf. But what if the wolf were real?For Nat, a shining all-American boy with blue-collar roots, acceptance to New England's exclusive Inverness College seems like the opportunity of a lifetime. The chilling events that follow are nothing like what he imagined.It begins at Christmas break. Nat, unable to afford going home for the holidays, remains alone on the deserted campus. Alone—until he meets Grace and Izzie Zorn, twin sisters who, although biologically identical, are utterly different. Thrown off by the irresistible attraction of this astonishing pair, Nat's moral compass starts to fail him. How could it not, as he enters a seductive new world of private Caribbean islands, personal jets, and endless possibility? A world where folly, even crime, now seems right.When classes resume, Nat and the twins fall under the influence of a charismatic philosophy professor with dangerous ideas and a secret of his own. His teachings will be used to justify a bold scheme, plotted deep beneath the school in the lair of a forgotten social club, banished for almost a century.But someone in the underground shadows is listening, someone who thinks he deserves a future just as bright as Nat's. Suddenly a risky but basically innocent game will take a horrifying turn.

About Peter Abrahams

Peter Abrahams is the author of The Tutor, The Last of the Dixie Heroes, A Perfect Crime, Crying Wolf, and The Fan, which was made into a major motion picture starring Robert DeNiro. He lives on Cape Cod with his wife and four children.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim on June 29, 2023

Stories about twins always seem gimmicky and manipulative, and this one is no exception. What saves it is Peter Abrahams’ top-tier show-don’t-tell skills, lending the savory glide of pleasurable uncertainty to every passage and every page of this tale of dark Suspense, and a first-rate villain who ps......more

Goodreads review by Jharmon on January 05, 2010

Read this because my daughter read his YA books and she loved Abrahams so much she got her hands on this adult book. Good complex plot with interesting twists. But not appropriate for my 11 year old. Lots of themes she was clueless about. If a parentnts of that entitled world, this is an excellent......more

Goodreads review by Lori on January 15, 2008

I spent the first 20 pages in a state of deja vu. Everything was vaguely familiar. I spent the next 20 convinced I'd read the book before, though I could remember zero specifics. So I decided maybe it was just that the tone is so The Secret History-esque. Twenty pages later, I gave up and checked my P......more

Goodreads review by Rhondakimball on November 14, 2010

Very suspenseful......more

Goodreads review by Justin on February 15, 2020

Man, I will have to vehemently disagree with the other reviewers on here. This one was awesome! I went through a big Abrahams phase about 10 years back and remember liking all of his novels, but this one was wayyy better than the others I’ve read. This has a great university setting with believable c......more