Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

Brown, Sandra

Standoff Sandra Brown - New York, NY Warner Books, c2000. - 217 p. 22 cm.

In this suspenseful thriller, a journalist who stumbles upon a deadly crime while pursuing the scoop of a lifetime will find her strength and conviction tested in new and frightening ways.

TV reporter Tiel McCoy is driving to New Mexico for a well-earned vacation when she hears the news on the radio: The teenage daughter of Forth Worth tycoon Russell Dendy has been kidnapped. Immediately, she ditches her holiday to chase down the story that could make her career.

But in a town called Rojo Flats, an innocuous stop at a convenience store thrusts her directly into the unfolding story -- and a dangerous crime drama. For inside the shop two desperate young lovers are holding a half dozen frightened hostages . . . and a powder keg of a standoff is about to test Tiel's courage, journalistic integrity, and everything she has ever believed.

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Hostage negotiations--Fiction.
Runaway teenagers--Fiction.
Women journalists--Fiction.


New Mexico--Fiction.



PS3552.R718 / S73 2000

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