Eleven Hours

Eleven Hours
Paullina Simons

A compelling, heartrending tale of a woman in danger and the man who’s desperate to find her, from the internationally bestselling author of TULLY and ROAD TO PARADISEA heavily pregnant young woman is leaving the shopping mall to head home on a horribly hot day in Texas. Her normal life of shopping, husband, children, with the extra excitement of the imminent baby, stretches before her.And then she is bundled into a car and kidnapped by a desperate young man.What does he want? Where are they going?In scenes that alternate between the desperate husband, pursuing by car, the alarmingly laid-back FBI agent tracing her by helicopter - who may or may not be as good as he thinks at rescuing hostages - and the increasingly threatened wife, Eleven Hours is a tour de force of storytelling power.

PAULLINA SIMONS

ELEVEN HOURS

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First published in Great Britain by Flamingo an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 1998

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Ebook Edition © MARCH 2015 ISBN: 9780007397310

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For my third child

It was not you that sent me here.

JOSEPH TO HIS BROTHERS, GEN. 45:9

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