'A really entertaining thriller [that] like Michael Crichton . . . keeps ratcheting up the
suspense' BOOKLIST ____________________________Two sisters have always stood together. Now
they're the only ones left. In the shadow of Mount Hood in the US Pacific Northwest
sixteen-year-old Tennant is checking rabbit traps with her eight-year-old sister Sophie. The
girls are suddenly overcome by a strange vibration rising out of the forest building in
intensity until it sounds like a deafening crescendo of screams. From out of nowhere their
father sweeps them up and drops them through a trapdoor into a storm cellar. But the noise only
gets worse . . . ________________________________ 'No one gets this big without amazing natural
storytelling talent - which is what Jim has in spades' LEE CHILD 'The master storyteller of
our times' HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON 'It's no mystery why James Patterson is the world's most
popular thriller writer . . . Simply put: nobody does it better' JEFFERY DEAVER 'Patterson
boils a scene down to the single telling detail the element that defines a character or moves
a plot along. It's what fires off the movie projector in the reader's mind' MICHAEL CONNELLY
'One of the greatest storytellers of all time' PATRICIA CORNWELL 'A writer with an unusual
skill at thriller plotting' MARK LAWSON GUARDIAN 'James Patterson is The Boss. End of.' IAN
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