
Beschreibung
Details
Format
ePUB 3
Kopierschutz
Ja
Family Sharing
Ja
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
29.06.2021
Verlag
Penguin Publishing GroupSeitenzahl
336 (Printausgabe)
Dateigröße
1784 KB
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9780593183175
It's November 1991. George H. W. Bush is in the White House, Nirvana's in the tape deck, and movie-obsessed college student Charlie Jordan is in a car with a man who might be a serial killer.
Josh Baxter, the man behind the wheel, is a virtual stranger to Charlie. They met at the campus ride board, each looking to share the long drive home to Ohio. Both have good reasons for wanting to get away. For Charlie, it's guilt and grief over the murder of her best friend, who became the third victim of the man known as the Campus Killer. For Josh, it's to help care for his sick father. Or so he says. Like the Hitchcock heroine she's named after, Charlie has her doubts. There's something suspicious about Josh, from the holes in his story about his father to how he doesn't seem to want Charlie to see inside the car's trunk. As they travel an empty highway in the dead of night, an increasingly worried Charlie begins to think she's sharing a car with the Campus Killer. Is Josh truly dangerous? Or is Charlie's suspicion merely a figment of her movie-fueled imagination?
What follows is a game of cat-and-mouse played out on night-shrouded roads and in neon-lit parking lots, during an age when the only call for help can be made on a pay phone and in a place where there's nowhere to run. In order to win, Charlie must do one thing-survive the night.
Josh Baxter, the man behind the wheel, is a virtual stranger to Charlie. They met at the campus ride board, each looking to share the long drive home to Ohio. Both have good reasons for wanting to get away. For Charlie, it's guilt and grief over the murder of her best friend, who became the third victim of the man known as the Campus Killer. For Josh, it's to help care for his sick father. Or so he says. Like the Hitchcock heroine she's named after, Charlie has her doubts. There's something suspicious about Josh, from the holes in his story about his father to how he doesn't seem to want Charlie to see inside the car's trunk. As they travel an empty highway in the dead of night, an increasingly worried Charlie begins to think she's sharing a car with the Campus Killer. Is Josh truly dangerous? Or is Charlie's suspicion merely a figment of her movie-fueled imagination?
What follows is a game of cat-and-mouse played out on night-shrouded roads and in neon-lit parking lots, during an age when the only call for help can be made on a pay phone and in a place where there's nowhere to run. In order to win, Charlie must do one thing-survive the night.
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Good book!
vivi am 25.01.2024
Bewertungsnummer: 2116838
Bewertet: eBook (ePUB)
This was the first book I've read from Riley Sager and she really impressed me with the way she wrote this book. The plot was good and it had me shocked. The setting, where the book played was really good, but what I didn't really like is, that almost the whole story played in the car. After a while it got kinda boring. In the end I really enjoyed the book but it's not a must read.
good but not a must-read
Bewertung am 26.06.2023
Bewertungsnummer: 1968857
Bewertet: Buch (Taschenbuch)
It was good, I often really enjoyed the book and there was some kind of plot that really shocked me.But for me it was obviously who the campus-Killer was, so it kinda ruined the fun. I also expected more from the book, 90% of it plays inside the car which was often boring to me.It was nice but as I said, it could've been better.