Standoff

Name: Standoff
Brand: Simon & Schuster Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.4 (10 reviews)
Author: Sandra Brown
ISBN: 9780743567824

Author: Sandra Brown

Narrator: Enid Graham

Unabridged: 6 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Published: 05/01/2000

Categories: Fiction, Romance, Suspense & Thriller

Synopsis

TV reporter Tiel McCoy is driving down Interstate 20 on her way to New Mexico for a well-earned vacation. But her itinerary is rewritten when she hears on the radio that the teenage daughter of a well-known Fort Worth multi-millionaire has been kidnapped, at least that's the official report. In truth, she is pregnant and has run away with her boyfriend. After calling her editor, Tiel abandons her holiday plans in favor of pursuing the story.
During an innocuous visit to a convenience store in Rojo Flats, Tiel gets up close and personal with the barrel of a gun, two desperate young lovers -- and the scoop of a lifetime.
In the electrifying standoff that follows, she learns why the two young runaways fear the wealthy father of one of them even more than the FBI...and why she must defend them against a world bent on their destruction.
Poignant and riveting, Standoff is suspense at its best, as only Sandra Brown can create it.

About Sandra Brown

A native Texan, and now American author, Sandra Brown, has published over seventy novels, with books in print numbering eighty million or more worldwide. Out of her works, she has had sixty New York Times bestsellers. She was born in Waco, then grew up in Fort Worth, and majored in English at Texas Christian University. She would come to be given an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from TCU. She and her husband, Michael, created a foundation to award an annual scholarship to a student whose interests lie in fictional writing.

In 2011 she and other colleagues travel to Afghanistan to tour several United States bases. She currently lives with her husband in Arlington, Texas.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sheyla ✎ on August 11, 2020

Standoff is a short story. It has six intense chapters. I couldn’t put it down!! Tiel McCoy is a reporter. She is good at her job and she was on her way to a needed and well-deserved vacation when her boss tells her she might be close to the story of the year. A young man, Ronnie has abducted his......more

Goodreads review by Paul on August 01, 2022

A first-rate one act, one scene hostage drama conflict! TV personality Tiel McCoy is headed to New Mexico for some long overdue R&R. Cue in the outrageous entirely over-the-top coincidence that readers will completely forgive and overlook because without it, STANDOFF doesn’t exist as a bitchin’ host......more

Goodreads review by Sandra on September 13, 2016

TV reporter Tiel McCoy is driving to a mountain resort in New Mexico for a long overdue vacation. Along the way she hears a news bulletin on her car radio--tycoon Russell Dendy's teenage daughter, Sabra, has been kidnapped. Tiel stops at a convenience store to call her boss, Gully, for some info, an......more

Goodreads review by Alex is The Romance Fox on October 30, 2016

STANDOFF by Sandra Brown was a bit disappointing. The plot stretched my imagination....I couldn't really feel anything believable about it and seemed a bit too predictable. The characters were like cardboard caricatures......I couldn't engage with any of them.....even the main characters. The dialogue......more

Goodreads review by Lainy on July 21, 2010

What a fantastic book. First time I have read any of hers and I couldn't put it down. Read it in one day. Very easy to follow, great story, total page turner. I recommend to anyone who likes James Patterson etc......more