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    The Deadline Clock
    The Deadline Clock
    The Deadline Clock
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    The Deadline Clock

    By Jeffery Deaver

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    Reward seeker Colter Shaw faces a ticking clock with murderous consequences in this riveting short story.

    A serial kidnapper is on the loose in a small town in Maine, targeting wealthy women and demanding a huge ransom in bitcoin for their safe return. When his latest victim’s husband claims that he can’t come up with the money, the word “deadline” takes on a disturbingly literal meaning. The local police are out of their depth, but Colter Shaw takes the lead in the investigation. Soon, he’s using his survivalist instincts to uncover clues and pursue suspects, putting his own life on the line to catch the would-be killer before the countdown hits zero.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
    Release dateSep 27, 2022
    ISBN9780593422144
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    Jeffery Deaver

    Jeffery Deaver is an international number one bestselling author. The author of twenty-five novels and two collections of short stories. His books are sold in 150 countries and translated into 25 languages. For more information about Mr Deaver visit www.jefferydeaver.com

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      The Deadline Clock - Jeffery Deaver

      Cover for The Deadline Clock, Author, Jeffery Deaver

      Also by Jeffery Deaver

      Novels

      The Colter Shaw Series

      The Final Twist

      The Goodbye Man

      The Never Game

      The Lincoln Rhyme Series

      The Midnight Lock

      The Cutting Edge

      The Burial Hour

      The Steel Kiss

      The Skin Collector

      The Kill Room

      The Burning Wire

      The Broken Window

      The Cold Moon

      The Twelfth Card

      The Vanished Man

      The Stone Monkey

      The Empty Chair

      The Coffin Dancer

      The Bone Collector

      The Kathryn Dance Series

      Solitude Creek

      XO

      Roadside Crosses

      The Sleeping Doll

      The Rune Series

      Hard News

      Death of a Blue Movie Star

      Manhattan Is My Beat

      The John Pellam Series

      Hell’s Kitchen

      Bloody River Blues

      Shallow Graves

      Stand-alones

      The October List

      Carte Blanche (A James Bond Novel)

      Edge

      The Bodies Left Behind

      Garden of Beasts

      The Blue Nowhere

      Speaking in Tongues

      The Devil’s Teardrop

      A Maiden’s Grave

      Praying for Sleep

      The Lesson of Her Death

      Mistress of Justice

      Short Fiction Collections

      Trouble in Mind

      Triple Threat

      More Twisted

      Twisted

      Short Fiction Individual Stories

      Scheme

      A Perfect Plan, a Lincoln Rhyme Story

      Cause of Death

      Turning Point

      Verona

      The Debriefing

      Ninth and Nowhere

      The Second Hostage, a Colter Shaw Story

      Captivated, a Colter Shaw Story

      The Victims’ Club

      Surprise Ending

      Double Cross

      Vows, a Lincoln Rhyme Story

      The Deliveryman, a Lincoln Rhyme Story

      A Textbook Case

      Original Audio Works

      The Starling Project, a Radio Play

      Stay Tuned

      The Intruder

      Date Night

      Editor/Contributor

      No Rest for the Dead (Contributor)

      Watchlist (Creator/Contributor)

      The Chopin Manuscript (Creator/Contributor)

      The Copper Bracelet (Creator/Contributor)

      Nothing Good Happens after Midnight (Editor/Contributor)

      Ice Cold (Co-Editor/Contributor)

      A Hot and Sultry Night for Crime (Editor/Contributor)

      Books to Die For (Contributor)

      The Best American Mystery Stories 2009 (Editor)

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      G. P. Putnam’s Sons

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      Copyright © 2022 by Gunner Publications, LLC

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      Ebook ISBN: 9780593422144

      Cover design: Tal Goretsky

      Cover images: (motorcycle rider) Tetra Images - Johannes Kroemer / Brand X Pictures / Getty Images; (clock) Yevgenij_D / Shutterstock

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      Also by Jeffery Deaver

      Title Page

      Copyright

      THE DEADLINE CLOCK

      About the Author

      I couldn’t see him—the hood was over my head. But I could hear. He said, It’s time. It won’t hurt. Like he was talking to a neighbor about the weather. And he got me around the neck, a choke hold, I guess it was. And I was zip-tied, so I couldn’t fight back. I tried but I couldn’t. And he just started the pressure and things started to go black, just like in a few seconds. And I knew I was dead . . .

      Colter Shaw had come to the beautiful and gritty seaport town of Westbay, Maine, because in five hours and a handful of minutes, a woman was going to die.

      His Winnebago in a campground on the outskirts, his motorcycle locked to a parking meter on the street below, Shaw was presently in the office of the Westbay Police Department’s chief of detectives.

      He was, at the moment, alone and looking through the glass wall into the detective pen, in which were eight or so uniformed or plainclothed men and women. The windows comprising the walls of the office were spotless; Shaw smelled vinegar and had an early memory of his mother using vinegar and newspapers to clean panes. When there were newspapers. Shaw

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