THE SEIZING OF YANKEE GREEN MALL(title changed to HIDDEN CHARGES in paperback) "Pearson writes clear prose, epic in scope and strongly cinematic, cross-cutting from event to event in short, pithy chapters...." —Publishers Weekly  READ MORE PRAISE
With the richness and vitality of books like Airport and Hotel, and with the high-pressure excitement of books like Black Sunday and The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3, Ridley Pearson's The Seizing of Yankee Green Mall is the novel we have been waiting for from this critically acclaimed young thriller writer. It is a novel of intense dramatic power that brings the unthinkable into every American's backyard.
The setting is The Yankee Green—an enormous shopping center/ entertainment mall located in a suburb of Boston. The mall is a self-sufficient, environmentally controlled, electronically secure indoor city; tens of thousands of people pass through its five pavilions every day. The children play in the indoor amusement park; the young professionals work out in the state-of-the-art health club and jog on the atrium's overhead running track; the elderly walk the promenades, sit on benches, chat under the fountains and in the manicured gardens. But the labyrinth of service halls that are weaved into the superstructure lurks a demon: a madman with a grudge, whose plan is to hold five thousand people hostage inside a pavilion he wired to explode. This book is a kaleidoscope of plot and character that spins in deliciously complex tale of greed, power, and passion, and explodes into a breathtaking rocker of a thriller in which one ordinary man must reach to the core of his fortitude and wit in a passionate struggle to save himself, the hostages, and the woman he loves.
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Praise for The Seizing of Yankee Green Mall… "Pearson expertly juggles a large cast of characters and keeps the action moving in his exciting new thriller. He writes clear prose, epic in scope and strongly cinematic, cross-cutting from event to event in short, pithy chapters.... True and false heroes, vigilantes seeking publicity, lovers seeking consummation and many more characters have a part to play in an ending that will keep readers on the edge of their seats as the bomb is set and the last minutes tick away." —Publishers Weekly "The centerpiece of this fast-moving novel is a magna-size shopping center, The Yankee Green Mall, which impinges on the lives of the dozen or so principal characters in the book.... Ridley Pearson is a clever writer who knows how to construct and draw out a plot for maximum suspense." —West Coast Review of Books  |
                                  
  
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