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Ransom (Danielle Steel)
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Binding: Audio CD
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780553757088
Edition: Abridged
Format: Abridged, Audiobook
ISBN: 0553757083
Label: Random House Audio
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishUnknownEnglishPublished
Manufacturer: Random House Audio
Number Of Items: 1
Publication Date: 2004-02
Publisher: Random House Audio
Release Date: February 24, 2004
Studio: Random House Audio
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Editorial Review:A violent crime brings together four lives in Danielle Steel’s sixtieth bestselling novel, the story of a mother’s courage, a family’s terror, and a triumph of human strength and dignity in the face of overwhelming odds.Outside the gates of a California prison, Peter Morgan is released after four long years and vows to redeem himself in the eyes of the young daughters he left behind. Simultaneously, Carl Waters, a convicted murderer, is set on the path of freedom with him. That night, three hundred miles south in San Francisco, police detective Ted Lee comes home to a silent house; for twenty-nine years, he has been living for his job—and slowly falling out of love with his wife. Across town, in an exclusive Pacific Heights neighborhood, a mother tries to shield her three children from the panic rising within her. Four months after her husband’s death, Fernanda Barnes faces a mountain of debt she cannot repay, a world destroyed, and a marriage lost. Within weeks, the lives of these four people will collide in ways none of them could have foreseen. For Fernanda, whose life had once been graced by beautiful homes, security, success, and stunning wealth, the death of her brilliant, brooding husband was already too much to bear. She simply couldn’t imagine a greater loss, until a devastating crime rocks her family to its core—and brings Detective Ted Lee into her life.
A man of unshakable integrity, Lee will soon become the one person who tries to save Fernanda’s family from a terrifying fate. Fernanda must draw on a strength she never knew she had. Racing against time in the underbelly of the criminal world, buffeted by the dark side of power, and unmoored by loss and betrayal, no one can predict where this tragedy will take them.Danielle Steel brilliantly explores the collision of a shocking crime with the ordinary lives of its victims in a novel that mesmerizes from start to finish. Ransom is at once a riveting evocation of life’s inexplicable turns of fate and a testament to the human will to survive.
From the Hardcover edition.
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Ransom began with such promise. Then Steel ran out of ideas, and the next 150 pages repeated what the reader was told in the beginning. The ending was absolutely awful. Stating that everybody is crying because a mother and son are reunited is absolutely ridiculous. No one cared about the handful of dead police officers; according to Steel the entire SFPD would have died for this stupid kid. She should stick to Romance.
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This is one of DS' more exciting novels, as far as a high level of action, drama and suspense. The characters were really interesting, especially the bad guys. I have only one complaint: after taking the reader through a frantic, exciting and heart-stopping 300 pages, the high moment of the book is recapped after it happens, explained by another character! What was the point of writing this really neat, enjoyable book, only to cheat the reader out of the best part of the story? After walking ... Read More
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Peter Morgan just got released from prison after doing time for drug charges. He is a decent and attractive man, but is not able to find a job now because of his record. To earn money, he becomes involved in a plot to kidnap Fernanda Barnes's children to earn money from the ransom. At one time, Fernanda was married to a billionaire and was very rich. Recently her husband was killed (probably suicide) when he found out that he was bankrupt. The story covers the planning and kidnapping of one of the ... Read More
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In this book, the lives of four people intersect and are woven together. The initial descriptions of the four people--two recently released convicts, a woman whose husband has committed suicide, and a police officer--are interesting and promise an intriguing story. Unfortunately, the book goes downhill from there. The characters are manipulated in an artificial manner, and the interactions are forced and wooden. I agree that the writing is surprisingly amateurish at times and a good editor would ... Read More
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I have read a number of Steele's books over the years; this one was so bland, trite, and contained such bad writing I had to look at the cover repeatedly to establish it really was her book. Sentence structure, content and story line all fall far below standards - did she have an editor at all who would tell her the truth?? The first person, third person, omnicient points of view vary from sentence to sentence; one minute you are in Peter's head, the next standing above the room commenting on what is ... Read More
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