Why would a man serving a long prison sentence escape the day before he's due to be released? Audie Palmer has spent ten years in a Texas prison after pleading guilty to a robbery in which four people died and seven million dollars went missing. During that time he has suffered repeated beatings, stabbings and threats by inmates and guards, all desperate to answer the same question: where's the money? On the day before Audie is due to be released, he suddenly vanishes. Now everybody is searching for him -- the police, FBI, gangsters and other powerful figures -- but Audie isn't running to save his own life. Instead, he's trying to save someone else's. Michael Robotham has created the ultimate underdog hero, an honorable criminal shrouded in mystery and ready to lead readers on a remarkable chase.
Oh gosh. His books are always hard to put down and one wants to keep on reading as fast as possible to find out what happens next and what is really going on. The past slowly unfolds here, explaining the present. Never assume. Hard to write down much without giving things away, but as this is a standalone, the story is pretty well tied up at the end, and believably so. This may be fiction, but it is also testament to the fact that a person can put up with a lot, even defying death, for hope and the power of love.
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