DEAVER. DANGEROUSLY GOOD.

When a trio of desperate convicts hijack a bus carrying a group of deaf and mute schoolgirls, everyone is braced for a terrible tragedy.

FBI agent Arthur Potter is flown in to negotiate. But he has competition: local police, state troopers, politicians and the media are swarming. Not everyone has the same agenda.

And the killers will murder one innocent child an hour, on the hour, until their demands are met...

'A real chiller, seething with violence and heart-stopping tension' Sunday Telegraph

"Deaver knits a seamless fabric of tightening tension right up to the explosive double whammy ending" - The Times

"A real chiller, seething with violence and heart-stopping tension" - Sunday Telegraph

"A gripping, emotional descent into the mind of evil" - Anthony Gallagher, Waterstone's

"Tension-packed pages take the thriller to a new dimension" - Doris Mousdale, Whitcoulls, New Zealand

"An authentic and gripping hostage drama" - Toby Wrigley, Book League, South Africa

"Riveting and sensitively handled" - New Woman