Hell for the Holidays: A Christopher Miller Holiday Thriller - Softcover

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786720611 ISBN 13: 9780786720613

Publisher: Da Capo Press, 2007

Synopsis

A sequel to Slay Ride finds FBI agent Christopher Miller tackling a band of domestic terrorists who are copying the tactics of Al Qaeda throughout a plot to crash an African airliner leaving JFK airport during a busy holiday season. By the author of Tilt-a-Whirl. Simultaneous.

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About the Author

Chris Grabenstein was the first writer hired as a result of James Patterson’s famous advertising aptitude test that ran in the New York Times when Patterson was creative director of J. Walter Thompson. He spent several years at the nation's top ad agencies. Before he started in advertising, Grabenstein also worked with Bruce Willis (among others) in some of New York’s most acclaimed improvisational comedy troupes. A member of Mystery Writers of America, he lives in New York City. Hell for the Holidays is his fifth novel, following on from his John Ceepak/Jersey Shore mysteries, Tilt-A-Whirl, Mad Mouse, and Whack-a-Mole.

From Publishers Weekly

When kidnappers seize seven-year-old Carlos Acevedo, the son of a U.S. customs agent, on Halloween, Jersey City FBI agent Christopher Miller swings into action in Grabenstein's gripping second holiday thriller (after 2006's Slay Ride). Miller's sidekick, Lieutenant Cimino, wonders why Carlos would be abducted without ransom demands. Meanwhile, Miller's own seven-year-old daughter, Angela, remains traumatized from an encounter with a monster Santa who held a gun to her head the previous Christmas. Hiding at a remote Wyoming hunting lodge is the mastermind behind these crimes, Dr. John Tilley, with a demonic plan to take over the nation and save Western civilization. In New York City, an embittered ex-GI awaits orders from Tilley, a visionary and prophet, for the next operation. In a spectacular finish, SWAT teams close in on home-grown terrorists planning an attack on the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. This rapid-fire entertainment is sure to please Grabenstein's fans. (Nov.)
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About this edition

• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0786720611
• ISBN 13: 9780786720613
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 396