Sliver Of Truth by Lisa Unger

Sliver Of Truth by Lisa Unger This book is USED (not new) Condition: Good - Format: Paperback Publisher: Bantam, Australia, Dimensions: 18.2 x 11.6 x 2.4 centimetres (0, pages SKU: 3337y - We use NZ Post overnight for delivery so please allow 1-5 days for delivery - If you would like to see more photos of the book, ask a question and we'll add them Book Description: Love hurts...Sometimes it even kills One day Ridley Jones stepped off a street corner and into an abyss of violence, deception and fear. Everything she thought was true turned out to be a lie. Just as she's beginning to move on with her life, another seemingly ordinary act puts her life in danger and makes her question everything and everyone who's close to her. Forced to hunt down a ghost from her past Ridley wonders if she's ever had the power to shape her own destiny - and whether love has any reality beyond her own imagination. Take a terrifying helter skelter ride through the streets of New York to London and back again as Ridley risks everything - and learns to trust no one - in a race to find the truth before it catches up with her. Reviews Bestseller Unger's sensational second thriller (after Beautiful Lies) puts her in the same league as such genre masters as Peter Straub and Peter Abrahams. From the cryptic opening section, which ends with a New York Times reporter finding her husband bleeding to death, Unger grabs the reader by the throat and doesn't let go. Meanwhile, the FBI informs Ridley Jones, a magazine writer, that her late uncle, Max Smiley (who's really her biological father), is still alive and being sought by assorted international players on all sides of the law. Rapidly finding that little in her life is what it seems, Jones is horrified to be confronted with evidence indicating that Smiley is a misogynistic monster of the first order, who may have played a role in the murder of the reporter's husband. Unger's gifts for dialogue and pacing set this far above the standard no...