04951cam a2200421 4500 233987787 TxAuBib 20140806120000.0 ||||||s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780553399776 0553399772 3b106074-045e-4bd5-8275-1989923c3825 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1508702 OverDrive (Product ID) 1508702 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Giltrow, Helen. The Distance [Libby] : A Thriller. Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, 2014. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 370MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 370MB. Fiction. Suspense. Thriller. "Fast, hard, and very, very good.". HTML: -Lee Child, internationally bestselling author of the Jack Reacher thrillers. HTML:"It doesn't get more satisfyingly high-concept than Helen Giltrow's ithe Distance, a hair-raising expedition into a dark world of layered duplicities, captured with stylish prose and a breakneck pace.". HTML: -Chris Pavone, New York Times bestselling author of The Expats and The Accident . "A truly unusual thriller set in the world of espionage, this is a terrific debut . . . Original and thought-provoking.". HTML:Mirror (UK). "In British author Giltrow's riveting debut, the rich sophisticated Charlotte Alton is the alter ego of Karla, who operates a high-tech information network. Eight years earlier, Karla established a new identity for Simon Johanssen, a hit man fleeing gangster John Quillan. Now Johanssen wants her help infiltrating the Program, a prisoner-run society in a heavily guarded London neighborhood...the attraction between him and Karla, as well as other unexpected connections between damaged characters, add depth to an already satisfying read.". HTML: - Publishers Weekly. HTML:A dark, ultra-contemporary, and relentlessly paced debut thriller about a London society woman trying to put her secret criminal past behind her, and the hit man who comes to her with an impossible job she can't refuse. Charlotte Alton is an elegant socialite. But behind the locked doors of her sleek, high-security apartment in London's Docklands, she becomes Karla. Karla's business is information. Specifically, making it disappear. She's the unseen figure who, for a commanding price, will cover a criminal's tracks. A perfectionist, she's only made one slip in her career--several years ago she revealed her face to a man named Simon Johanssen, an ex-special forces sniper turned killer-for-hire. After a mob hit went horrifically wrong, Johanssen needed to disappear, and Karla helped him. He became a regular client, and then, one day, she stepped out of the shadows for reasons unclear to even herself. Now, after a long absence, Johanssen has resurfaced with a job, and he needs Karla's help again. The job is to take out an inmate--a woman--inside an experimental prison colony. But there's no record the target ever existed. That's not the only problem: the criminal boss from whom Johanssen has been hiding is incarcerated there. That doesn't stop him. It's Karla's job to get him out alive, and to do that she must uncover the truth. Who is this woman? Who wants her dead? Is the job a trap for Johanssen or for her? But every door she opens is a false one, and she's getting desperate to protect a man--a killer--to whom she's inexplicably drawn. Written in stylish, sophisticated prose, The Distance is a tense and satisfying debut in which every character, both criminal and law-abiding, wears two faces, and everyone is playing a double game.. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2015-08-06 14:05:11. Atkins, Rachel. http://nh.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=3b106074-045e-4bd5-8275-1989923c3825 http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/1191-1/1508702-TheDistance.wma Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/1508702-TheDistance.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=3B106074-045E-4BD5-8275-1989923C3825&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/1191-1/1508702-TheDistance.wma Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/1508702-TheDistance.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=3B106074-045E-4BD5-8275-1989923C3825&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)