Road Rage: An Inspector Wexford Novel - Hardcover

Rendell, Ruth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385256817 ISBN 13: 9780385256810

Publisher: Doubleday Canada, 1997

Synopsis

The woods outside of Kingsmarkham were lovely, dark, and deep.  And they were about to vanish forever when the new highway cut through them.  Chief Inspector Wexford hiked there for the last time, he believed, to say a quiet farewell to this special place.  But that achingly beautiful walk would signal instead a chilling change in his life, when a policeman's detached perspective changed into the terrifying fears of a victim...

While Wexford privately despaired about the highway project, local residents and outsiders were organizing a massive protest.  Some of them were desperate enough to kidnap five hostages and threaten to kill them.  One hostage was Wexford's wife, Dora.  Now, combining high technology with a cop's gut instincts, Wexford and his team race to find the kidnappers' whereabouts.  Because someone has crossed from political belief to fanaticism, and as the first body is found, good intentions may become Wexford's personal path to hell.

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Review:

Nobody has a better ear for the whine of the unloved and underappreciated than Ruth Rendell. Early in this Inspector Wexford adventure, a young woman who was bound and gagged during a robbery demands victim counseling; not long after, families of some people taken hostage quickly cluster themselves into a support group. The titular "road rage" is equally timely and politically correct: protestors have gathered from around the world to stop, by whatever means they can, a new motorway that will cut through some of the woods surrounding Wexford's fictional but endearing village of Kingsmarkham.

From the Publisher:

Ruth Rendell is, unequivocally, the most brilliant mystery novelist of our time."
-Patricia Cornwell

The sleights of hand are dazzling, the inventiveness amazing...Road Rage is the strongest Wexford ever."
-The Hamilton Spectator

About this edition

• Publisher: Doubleday Canada
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0385256817
• ISBN 13: 9780385256810
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384