Red, Red Robin (CH) - Hardcover
'...Gallagher has quietly become Britain's finest popular novelist, working a dark seam between horror and the psychological thriller.' - ARENA Ruth Lasseter needs an escort for the company party to cover her affair with one of the directors. From the agency's books she chooses Tim Hagan, many years her junior. The evening passes smoothly - until Ruth ends it in her companion's bed, and what she imagines to be a one-night stand becomes something infinitely more sinister. In Hagan's mind, she is the one to rescue him from his tortured past. He begins to strip Ruth's life of those securities she values: her flat, her job, her lover and her self-respect, until they are locked into a downward spiral of naked obsession and revenge.
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From the Inside Flap:
iller-reading were a sin, Stephen Gallagher would be responsible for my ultimate damnation. His work is fast-paced, well-written, infused with a sense of dark wonder, and altogether fresh."
--Dean R. Koontz
Though Tim Hagan appears wistful and sweet, beneath his polite veneer and boyishly handsome face lies a rage as deep as the ocean, and a conflict as sharp as a dagger. He needs a woman to save him from his gruesome past--and those who fail will simply become part of it.
Usually decisive and in command, thirty-something Ruth Lasseter finds herself on shaky ground. In order to mask an office affair, she must bring an escort to the company dance--someone who can play the part of paramour with convincing precision. Finally she makes her choice: Tim Hagan seems a suitable young man.
The darkness torn from that single night will consume Ruth with a need for vengeance and strip her life to the bone.
For Ruth escapes the hellish fate Hagan planned for her, only to become
About the Author:
--Dean R. Koontz
Though Tim Hagan appears wistful and sweet, beneath his polite veneer and boyishly handsome face lies a rage as deep as the ocean, and a conflict as sharp as a dagger. He needs a woman to save him from his gruesome past--and those who fail will simply become part of it.
Usually decisive and in command, thirty-something Ruth Lasseter finds herself on shaky ground. In order to mask an office affair, she must bring an escort to the company dance--someone who can play the part of paramour with convincing precision. Finally she makes her choice: Tim Hagan seems a suitable young man.
The darkness torn from that single night will consume Ruth with a need for vengeance and strip her life to the bone.
For Ruth escapes the hellish fate Hagan planned for her, only to become
Stephen Gallagher is the award-winning author of fifteen novels including Valley of Lights, Down River, Rain, and Nightmare, With Angel. He's the creator of Sebastian Becker, Special Investigator to the Lord Chancellor's Visitor in Lunacy, in a series of novels that includes The Kingdom of Bones, The Bedlam Detective, and The Authentic William James.
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- PublisherCharnwood
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0708988806
- ISBN 13 9780708988800
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages544
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