Red, Red Robin - Softcover

Gallagher, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345406494 ISBN 13: 9780345406491

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1996

Synopsis

"FASCINATING . . . KEEP ALL THE LIGHTS ON WHILE READING IT."
--Houston Chronicle
He's sweet, wistful, and boyishly handsome. But beneath Tim Hagan's polite veneer lies a rage as deep as the ocean. He needs a woman to save him from his gruesome past--and those who fail become part of it. . . .
"POWERFUL PROSE, WRENCHING PSYCHOLOGICAL INTENSITY, AND ICY SUSPENSE."
--Library Journal
Ruth Lasseter finds herself in a bind: to put the office gossips off the scent of her affair with a married coworker, she must attend a company function with an attractive, even enviable, male. And Tim Hagan seems just the ticket. . . .
"TRULY MENACING."
--Kirkus Reviews
The darkness torn from that single night will consume Ruth with a need for vengeance and strip her life to the bone. And as Ruth penetrates the very heart of Tim's madness, she finds herself irrevocably locked in a chilling dance to the death. . . .
"If thriller-reading were a sin, Stephen Gallagher would be responsible for my ultimate damnation. His work is fast-paced, well-written, infused with a sense of dark wonder, and altogether fresh."
-- Dean R. Koontz

About this title

About the Author

Stephen Gallagher is the award-winning author of fifteen novels including Valley of Lights, Down River, Rain, and Nightmare, With Angel. He's the creator of Sebastian Becker, Special Investigator to the Lord Chancellor's Visitor in Lunacy, in a series of novels that includes The Kingdom of Bones, The Bedlam Detective, and The Authentic William James.

From Publishers Weekly

British writer Gallagher (Nightmare, with Angel) has written a smashing serial-killer thriller that embraces all the conventions of the genre while adding several page-turning twists and subtexts of its own. When, in order to protect her married lover, Ruth Lasseter uses an escort service to employ a companion, Tim Hagan, for a company event, it comes as no surprise to the reader that the hired help turns out to be serious trouble. But Ruth isn't your standard damsel in distress. She's a resident British alien working for a Philadelphia publisher, emotionally stressed enough to discuss her plans with her imaginary child but strong enough to flaunt her too-young escort in a corporate setting. Even after the Hagan reveals his true nature and she and security guard Aidan Kincannon foil his plans for her in a struggle that leads to the madman's presumed death, Ruth continues to be haunted by the young man, and delves into his past. As she discovers, Hagan may not be dead, and may not be the man everyone assumes him to be. And, as she uncovers the macabre and unsettling story of his childhood, Ruth finds herself pushing away Aidan and anyone else who might help her regain her emotional equilibrium. The final, inevitable showdown between a killer driven by inescapable demons and a woman who seeks understanding as much as revenge proves as powerful as the promise that Gallagher has built up, page upon gripping page of this compelling, unusually sensitive chiller. Mystery Guild and Doubleday Book Club selections; Literary Guild alternate.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0345406494
• ISBN 13: 9780345406491
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 435