Road Rage - Hardcover

Rendell, Ruth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0609600567 ISBN 13: 9780609600566

Verlag: Crown Pub, 1997

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Chief Inspector Wexford confronts a group of environmental radicals who attempt to stop a highway project by taking five people hostage, including Wexford's wife

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RUTH RENDELL is the author of Blood Lines (Crown, 1996), Simisola (Crown, 1995), and The Crocodile Bird (Crown, 1994). Her most recent novel is The Keys to the Street (Crown, 1996). She lives in England.

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ltiple Edgar and Gold Dagger awards including the most prestigious Edgar of them all, the Grand Master, Ruth Rendell returns with a novel that pits Chief Inspector Wexford against a quite personal foe: the environmental terrorists who kidnap and threaten the lives of five hostages--including Wexford's own wife. <br><br>As Road Rage begins, Chief Inspector Wexford is walking through Framhurst Great Wood, just outside his beloved town of Kingsmarkham, for what he tells himself will be the last time. He can no longer bear to look at the natural beauty that will soon be despoiled by the construction of a new highway. Wexford rather despairs of the project; his more sanguine wife, Dora, is active on a committee to save the threatened land. Others are more desperate to achieve their end, and their means include the taking of hostages, including Dora, and the threat to begin murdering them.<br><br>How Wexford and his dedicated team of police officers race against time to learn the identity of the

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• Verlag: Crown Pub
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0609600567
• ISBN 13: 9780609600566
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 344
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