The Bodies Left Behind

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The Bodies Left Behind

Jeffery Deaver

Large Paperback

Name on the front page

The book: An abruptly interrupted phone call from a Wisconsin country house, alerts the police. Inspector McKenzie is in charge of the investigation. Leaving her son and his friend, she discovers a scene of horror: two people shot in the head. The murderers are still at the scene and they attack McKenzie who is deprived of his gun, his phone and his car. McKenzie flees into the forest, taking with her a survivor of the carnage she can't give up. Hunted like animals, exhausted, the two women live a terrifying ordeal. In mortal danger, Inspector McKenzie knows that she can only trust one thing: her survival instincts.
The author: Jeffery Deaver, a former journalist, folk singer and lawyer, is published in more than one hundred and twenty countries and translated into twenty-five languages. His novels, which regularly appear on the bestseller lists, have been awarded the most prestigious awards in crime literature, such as the Steel Dagger Prize for The Rectifier. The Bonebreaker was adapted into a film by Universal, starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. Critics praised his talent for the very particular climate of terror that he knows how to create and his plots rich in twists and turns. When it was published in the United States, Survival Instinct received the award for best thriller of the year from the International Association of Thriller Writers.

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