The Second Hostage

Name: The Second Hostage
Brand: Penguin Random House
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3.6 (5 reviews)
Author: Jeffery Deaver
ISBN: 9780593216156

Author: Jeffery Deaver

Narrator: Kaleo Griffith

Unabridged: 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 03/03/2020

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Crime, Suspense & Thriller

Synopsis

A new original story from the bestselling and award-winning master of suspense, featuring Colter Shaw.

Colter Shaw is a career "reward-seeker," making his living locating missing persons and collecting reward money in return. In the course of his search for a missing woman, he visits the police station in the small Kansas town of Humble, and, is pulled into a puzzling case. A man is holding a hostage in a lakeside cabin, and the Humble police need Shaw's experience and know-how to assess the situation, and the captor's motives. As Shaw begins negotiating, he begins to realize that nothing about the hostage situation is as it seems, including the hostage himself.

About Jeffery Deaver

Chicago born author, Jeffery Deaver, has been richly rewarded for his successful career as a an American mystery/crime writer, including being a three-time Ellery Queen Reader's Award winner, and several different newspaper best of lists around the world.

Lincoln Rhyme, a quadriplegic detective is the main character in his most popular series of novels, such as The Broken Window. His time spent practicing law before he embarked on his writing career definitely gave him greater insight into the cases about which he writes.

He was writing about criminal hackers in his 2001 book, The Blue Nowhere. He also established a computer crime unit within the pages of the book. Several of his novels have been adapted for tv and movies. The most popular among them would be The Bone Collector, starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie.

Deaver was chosen to write an official James Bond novel, Carter Blanche, published on May 25, 2011, making him the second American author to participate in the series.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill on April 09, 2020

Colter Shaw makes his living from collecting rewards & sometimes it's a troublesome business. In this neat short story he becomes involved in a hostage situation, which (as it's a Jeffery Deaver story) is not quite what it seems. I really enjoyed this tale, as well as the previous Colter Shaw short s......more

Goodreads review by Gary on April 26, 2020

Another novella from author Jeffrey Deaver that in my opinion succeeds for me where so many fail. I am not generally that keen on short stories as so many lack depth but authors like Jeffrey Deaver and Jeffery Archer overcome that. This story focus's on Colter Shaw, a recent Deaver introduction and......more

Goodreads review by Clarence on December 11, 2020

ReedIII Quick Review: A delightful very short taste of Jeffery Deaver's character Colter Shaw. An excellent way to determine if you want to read other full novels in the series.......more

Goodreads review by Leslie aka StoreyBook Reviews on September 28, 2023

well I didn't see that ending coming! I really like Colter Shaw and how he determines what is the truth in different situations. The only thing is that we don't know what happened with the original case he was on with the missing girl. Did he find her?......more