Everything to Lose

By Andrew Gross

Everything to Lose - Andrew Gross
  • Release Date: 2014-04-22
  • Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers
Score: 4
4
From 173 Ratings

Description

A determined, (down on her luck,) mother caring for her handicapped son becomes entangled in a murderous conspiracy to keep a twenty year old secret buried in this blistering thriller, set during the tragic aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, from Andrew Gross, the New York Times bestselling author of 15 Seconds and No Way Back.

While driving along a suburban back road, Hilary Blum, who's just lost her job and whose deadbeat husband has left her alone to care for her son with Asperger's, witnesses a freakish accident. A car ahead of her careens down a hill and slams into a tree. Stopping to help, she discovers the driver dead—and a satchel stuffed with a half a million dollars.

That money could prevent her family's ruin and keep her special needs son in school. In an instant, this honest, achieving woman who has always done the responsible thing makes a decision that puts her in the center of maelstrom of dark consequences and life-threatening recriminations—a terrifying scheme involving a twenty-year-old murder, an old woman who's life has been washed out to sea, and a powerful figure bent to keep the secret that can destroy him hidden.

With everything to lose, everything she loves, Hilary connects to a determined cop from Staten Island, reeling from the disaster of Sandy, to bring down an enemy who will stop at nothing to keep what that money was meant to silence, still buried.

Reviews

  • Fun read

    4
    By JudgeArt
    I don't know if Gross is not better writing his own books than with Patterson. Enjoyed this as much as his last book. Twist and turns...happiness and sadness. Great read.
  • Ok story annoying lead character

    3
    By superacidjax
    The main character of this book was one of the most unsympathetic leads in a thriller that I've read in a long time. She comes off as spoiled and annoying. She has no money, yet she has a housekeeper and a gym membership. She isn't that proactive and seems kind of like a snobby upper-west sider. I think her financial situation (which drives the plot) was not that tragic. She lives in a mansion in which she has negative equity, yet she still tries to stay in the home despite the fact that she's effectively broke. She laments about her gym membership when she can't afford her house. She's just not likeable, though she is believable. The other characters were fairly one dimensional and I didn't get any feeling that anyone really changed by the end of the story. Decent plot, entertaining story but exceptionally flat on character development (even allowing that this is in the thriller genre.)
  • Everything to Lose

    5
    By Jim's I TOUCH
    Heart pounding finish!