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Fear the Worst - Linwood Barclay
Fear the Worst
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Your daughter doesn’t come home one night from her summer job. You go there looking for her. No one’s seen here. But it’s worse than that. No one’s ever seen her. So where has she been going every day? And where is she now?In Linwood Barclay’s riveting new thriller, an ordinary man’s desperate... show more
Your daughter doesn’t come home one night from her summer job. You go there looking for her. No one’s seen here. But it’s worse than that. No one’s ever seen her. So where has she been going every day? And where is she now?In Linwood Barclay’s riveting new thriller, an ordinary man’s desperate search for his daughter leads him into a dark world of corruption, exploitation, and murder. Tim Blake is about to learn that the people you think you know best are the ones harboring the biggest secrets.Tim is an average guy. He sells cars. He has an ex-wife. She’s moved in with a man whose moody son spends more time online than he should. His girlfriend is turning out to be a bit of a flake. It’s not a life without hassles, but nothing will prepare Tim for the nightmare that’s about to begin.Sydney vanishes into thin air. At the hotel where she supposedly worked, no one has ever heard of her. Even her closest friends seem to be at a loss. Now, as the days pass without word, Tim must face the fact that not only is Sydney missing, but that the daughter he’s loved and thought he knew is a virtual stranger.As he retraces Sydney’s steps, Tim discovers that the suburban Connecticut town he always thought of as idyllic is anything but. What he doesn’t know is that his every move is being watched. There are others who want to find Syd as much as Tim does. But they’re not planning a Welcome Home party.The closer Tim comes to the truth, the closer he comes to every parent’s worst nightmare—and the kind of evil only a parent’s love has a chance in hell of stopping.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780553807165 (0553807161)
Publisher: Bantam
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
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The Book Frog
The Book Frog rated it
1.0 Fear the Worst: A Novel
As Fear the Worst opens divorced dad Tim Blake is having a minor domestic spat with his teen-age daughter. Just pages later she is missing, and a whole sequence of thriller cliches is ratcheted into place. Sydney, the daughter, is unknown by her supposed co-workers at the seedy hotel she's told ...
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it
2.5 Fear the Worst by Linwood Barclay
bookshelves: published-2009, fraudio, summer-2011, mystery-thriller, north-americas Read from June 29 to July 02, 2011 ** spoiler alert ** Overlong for a bog standard 2.5*blurb - That's what Tim Blake finds himself asking when his daughter Sydney vanishes into thin air. At the hotel where she wa...
List Lover
List Lover rated it
Barclay knows how to keep you turning pages.
Blood Rose Books
Blood Rose Books rated it
2.0 Fear the Worst: A Novel
Linwood Barclay is an author known for his thrillers, and here Barclay delivers the mystery of a missing girl who no one seems to be able to explain why she is gone.Tim is just an average guy, he sells Hondas during the day and takes care of his teenage daughter Sydney at night and he kind of gets a...
MamamachtPause
MamamachtPause rated it
4.0 In Todesangst - Linwood Barclay
Inhalt:Eigentlich wollte Tim einen schönen Sommer mit seiner Teenagertochter verbringen. Seit der Trennung von seiner Frau lebt Sydney bei ihrer Mutter am anderen Ende der Stadt. Doch für einen Sommerjob in einem Hotel zieht sie vorübergehend zu Tim. Und verschwindet nach wenigen Wochen spurlos. Vol...
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