No Exit : A Novel

No exit
Bok av Taylor Adams
What a box of tricks! This full-throttle thriller, dark and driving, rivals Agatha Christie forsheer ingenuity and James Patterson for flat-out speed. Swift, sharp, and relentless. A. J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the WindowA brilliant, edgy thriller about four strangers, a blizzard, a kidnapped child, and a determined young woman desperate to unmask and outwit a vicious psychopath.A kidnapped little girl locked in a strangers van. No help for miles. What would you do?On her way to Utah to see her dying mother, college student Darby Thorne gets caught in a fierce blizzard in the mountains of Colorado. With the roads impassable, shes forced to wait out the storm at a remote highway rest stop. Inside are some vending machines, a coffee maker, and four complete strangers. Desperate to find a signal to call home, Darby goes back out into the storm . . . and makes a horrifying discovery. In the back of the van parked next to her car, a little girl is locked in an animal crate. Who is the child? Why has she been taken? And how can Darby save her?There is no cell phone reception, no telephone, and no way out. One of her fellow travelers is a kidnapper. But which one? Trapped in an increasingly dangerous situation, with a childs life and her own on the line, Darby must find a way to break the girl out of the van and escape. But who can she trust? With exquisitely controlled pacing, Taylor Adams diabolically ratchets up the tension with every page. Full of terrifying twists and hairpin turns, No Exit will have you on the edge of your seat and leave you breathless.
En bok som inte riktigt föll mig i smaken trots en säljande baksida. Boken är bitvis spännande men blir fort klichéartad där händelserna radar upp sig som på ett radband. Huvudpersonen, Darby, är ganska osannolik då hon gång på gång klantar till det men ändå lyckas med det hon tar sig för. Och det är mer som är osannolikt. Det märks att författaren har arbetat inom film- och tv-industrin innan för den här boken hade nog funkat bättre som film och då kanske också blivit lite bättre. En ganska förutsägbar bok trots sina försök att vara originell.