by Robert Crais · Ediciones B · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466617192
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«El secuestro» is the suspense novel by Robert Crais, published by Ediciones B in paperback (448 pages, in Spanish).
Three criminals, after an armed robbery, take refuge in a Los Angeles house with a man and his two children as hostages. The police surround the place and Jeff Talley, police chief and negotiator, takes charge of the negotiation. The hostage hides documents compromising for a powerful mafia.
The novel belongs to the Byblos collection (1980/1) and is a translation by Carlos Mayor of the English original 'Hostage'.
It is intended for readers of suspense and action novels looking for a hostage story from a police perspective.
Robert Crais is an American author of detective fiction and former screenwriter. Crais began his career writing scripts for television shows such as Hill Street Blues, Cagney & Lacey, Quincy, Miami Vice and L.A. Law. His writing is influenced by Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Ernest Hemingway, Robert B. Parker and John Steinbeck. Crais has won numerous awards for his crime novels. Lee Child has cited him in interviews as one of his favourite American crime writers. The novels of Robert Crais have been published in 62 countries and are bestsellers around the world. Robert Crais received the Ross Macdonald Literary Award in 2006 and was named Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America in 2014.
