Wolf Synopsis
The Edgar Awardwinning, internationally bestselling author delivers a bone-chilling novel about a family held hostage in their country home. Wolf kicks off when a vagrantthe Walking Man, an enigmatic, recurring character in Hayder's fictionfinds a dog wandering alone with a scrap of paper with the words ';HELP US' attached to its collar. He's sure it's a desperate plea from someone in trouble and calls on Det. Inspector Jack Caffery to investigate. Caffery is reluctant to get involveduntil the Walking Man promises to exchange new information regarding the childhood disappearance of Caffery's brother. Caffery has no idea who or what he is searching for, but one thing he is sure of: it's a race against time. Meanwhile, the Anchor-Ferrers, a wealthy local family, are fighting for their lives, held hostage in their remote home ten miles away. As their ordeal becomes increasingly bizarre and humiliating, the family begins to wonder: Is this really a random crime? ';The home invasion novel to end all home invasion novels... Wolf is exceptionally original in premise and nightmarish in its rendering.'BookPage
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9780802192578 |
| Publication date: |
6th May 2014 |
| Author: |
Mo Hayder |
| Publisher: |
Grove Atlantic |
| Format: |
Ebook (Epub) |
| Primary Genre |
Thriller and Suspense
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Mo Hayder Press Reviews
Hayder keeps you guessing adroitly - and has in Caffrey, a maverick cop so fascinatingly weird that he makes Ian Rankin's Rebus seems a stolid conformist Sunday Times, Culture Builds to its mesmerising climax with a brilliantly paced sense of menace. Masterful Sunday Mirror
About Mo Hayder
After leaving school at fifteen, Mo Hayder worked as a barmaid, security guard, film-maker, hostess in a Tokyo club, educational administrator and teacher of English as a foreign language in Asia. She has an MA in creative writing from Bath Spa University, where she now teaches.
She is the author of Birdman, The Treatment, which won the 2001 WHSmith Thumping Good Read Award, and Tokyo, all published by Bantam Books.
In 2011 Mo Hayder was shortlisted for the CWA Dagger in the Library, awarded to an author for a body of work.
Maxim Jakubowski's view on DI JACK CAFFERY...
A London cop in self-exile in Bristol who is running from his past, now working in tandem with a local female police diver. Not for the faint-hearted, a series that explores the heart of darkness and chills to the bones. SKIN is the 4th in the series.
Jack Caffery series:
1. Birdman (2000)
2. The Treatment (2001)
3. Ritual (2008)
4. Skin (2009)
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