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Reviews"Three-dimensional characters fill out a riveting story that is like a juicy steak: slow broiled to perfection.... Highly recommended." --Library Journal "Intricate and suspenseful, ALONE keeps you on the edge of your seat." --Los Angeles Times "Like all the best suspense novels, ALONE will leave you shaken.... you can't wait to see what happens next." --People Magazine From the Hardcover edition., " Three-dimensional characters fill out a riveting story that is like a juicy steak: slow broiled to perfection.... Highly recommended." -- "Library Journal" " Intricate and suspenseful, ALONE keeps you on the edge of your seat." -- "Los Angeles Times "" Like all the best suspense novels, ALONE will leave you shaken.... you can't wait to see what happens next." -- "People" Magazine "From the Hardcover edition.", "Three-dimensional characters fill out a riveting story that is like a juicy steak: slow broiled to perfection. . . . Highly recommended." -- Library Journal "Intricate and suspenseful, Alone keeps you on the edge of your seat." -- Los Angeles Times "Like all the best suspense novels, Alone will leave you shaken. . . . You can't wait to see what happens next." -- People "A thrill-packed roller-coaster ride." -- Boston Globe, "Three-dimensional characters fill out a riveting story that is like a juicy steak: slow broiled to perfection.... Highly recommended." --"Library Journal" "Intricate and suspenseful, ALONE keeps you on the edge of your seat." --"Los Angeles Times ""Like all the best suspense novels, ALONE will leave you shaken.... you can't wait to see what happens next." --"People" Magazine "From the Hardcover edition.", "Three-dimensional characters fill out a riveting story that is like a juicy steak: slow broiled to perfection.... Highly recommended." - Library Journal "Intricate and suspenseful, ALONE keeps you on the edge of your seat." - Los Angeles Times "Like all the best suspense novels, ALONE will leave you shaken.... you can't wait to see what happens next." - People Magazine From the Hardcover edition., "Three-dimensional characters fill out a riveting story that is like a juicy steak: slow broiled to perfection.... Highly recommended." -Library Journal "Intricate and suspenseful, ALONE keeps you on the edge of your seat." -Los Angeles Times "Like all the best suspense novels, ALONE will leave you shaken.... you can't wait to see what happens next." -PeopleMagazine From the Hardcover edition.
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SynopsisAlone . . . Massachusetts State Trooper Bobby Dodge watches a tense hostage standoff unfold through the scope of his sniper rifle. Just across the street, in wealthy Back Bay, Boston, an armed man has barricaded himself with his wife and child. The man's finger tightens on the trigger and Dodge has only a split second to react . . . and forever pay the consequences. Alone . . . that's where the nightmare began for cool, beautiful, and dangerously sexy Catherine Rose Gagnon. Twenty-five years ago, she was buried underground during a month-long nightmare of abduction and abuse. Now her husband has just been killed. Her father-in-law, the powerful Judge Gagnon, blames Catherine for his son's death . . . and for the series of unexplained illnesses that have sent her own young son repeatedly to the hospital. Alone . . . a madman survived solitary confinement in a maximum security prison where he'd done hard time for the most sadistic of crimes. Now he walks the streets a free man, invisible, anonymous . . . and filled with an unquenchable rage for vengeance. What brings them together is a moment of violence--but what connects them is a passion far deeper and much more dangerous. For a killer is loose who's woven such an intricate web of evil that no one is above suspicion, no one is beyond harm, and no one will see death coming until it has them cornered, helpless, and alone. "From the Hardcover edition.", A Massachusetts State Police SWAT sniper saves a woman and her young son by shooting the woman's armed husband. Now he finds himself in a twisted minefield of sordid wealth and family secrets in Gardner's latest "New York Times" bestseller., "Like all the best suspense novels, Alone will leave you shaken. . . . You can't wait to see what happens next."-- People Who can you turn to when you're at your most vulnerable? State Trooper Bobby Dodge watches a tense hostage standoff through the scope of his sniper rifle. Dodge has only one second to react, or a woman and her child may die. Where can you hide when this killer comes? The woman at the other end of Bobby Dodge's rifle isn't only in trouble--she is trouble. Cool, beautiful, and dangerously sexy, Catherine Rose Gagnon's life will change in an instant of violence. It's the most terrifying place to be. . . . When Bobby pulls the trigger, someone will die. And then no one will be above suspicion, no one beyond harm. And no one will see death coming until it has them cornered, helpless, and alone .