The Escape Room : A Novel

ISBN-13: 9781250241856 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 368 str.

Megan Goldin

Opis

For fans of JP Delaney's The Girl Before and Ruth Ware's The Woman in Cabin 10 comes this hair-raising novel of deception and revenge that will blow readers away.

"Welcome to the escape room. Your goal is simple. Get out alive." In the lucrative world of Wall Street finance, Vincent, Jules, Sylvie and Sam are the ultimate high-flyers. Ruthlessly ambitious, they make billion-dollar deals and live lives of outrageous luxury. Getting rich is all that matters, and they'll do anything to get ahead. When the four of them are ordered to participate in a corporate team-building exercise that requires them to escape from a locked elevator, things start to go horribly wrong. They have to put aside their fierce office rivalries and work together to solve the clues that will release them. But in the confines of the elevator, the dark secrets of their team are laid bare. They are made to answer for profiting from a workplace where deception, intimidation and sexual harassment thrive. Tempers fray and the escape room's clues turn more and more ominous, leaving the four of them dangling on the precipice of disaster. If they want to survive, they'll have to solve one final puzzle: which one of them is a killer?

Recenzje

Praise for The Escape Room:

"The pages turn themselves...THE ESCAPE ROOM delivers all that it promises. It is a sleek, well-crafted ride to a surprisingly twisty conclusion." -New York Times Book Review

"THE ESCAPE ROOM works as the ultimate locked-room mystery...Goldin excels at illustrating the pressures of a Wall Street career." -Associated Press

"Addicting." -Time Magazine

"There is clearly no happy ending likely for the four colleagues trapped inside [the escape room]; but fans of JP Delany and Ruth Ware will want to be right in there with them...a nail-biting tale of a corporate team-building exercise gone horribly wrong." -Booklist

"Cancel all your plans and call in sick; once you start reading, you'll be caught in your own escape room-the only key to freedom is turning the last page!" -Kirkus Reviews (starred)

"Riveting...[a] tale of greed and revenge set on Wall Street...Thriller fans will eagerly turn the pages to see what happens next." -Publishers Weekly

"A shrewd, brilliantly structured thriller doubling as a takedown of corporate culture." -Shelf Awareness

"High wire tension from the first moment to the last. Four ruthless people locked in a deadly game where victory means survival. Gripping and unforgettable!" -Harlan Coben

"Fantastic. One of my favorite books of the year." -Lee Child

"Amazing...a thriller set in an elevator [that explores] the vast territory of people's worst natures. A nightmarish look inside ourselves. Simply riveting." -Louise Penny

"A sharp, slick, utterly engrossing thriller. This knockout debut hooked me from the first page and didn't let go." -Cristina Alger, USA Today bestselling author of The Banker's Wife

"Smart and compelling... I devoured this novel!" -Karen Cleveland, bestselling author of Need to Know

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O autorze

Goldin, MeganMEGAN GOLDIN, author of THE ESCAPE ROOM and THE NIGHT SWIM, worked as a correspondent for Reuters and other media outlets where she covered war, peace, international terrorism and financial meltdowns in the Middle East and Asia. She is now based in Melbourne, Australia where she raises three sons and is a foster mum to Labrador puppies learning to be guide dogs.