Hilary Blum has just lost her job, is wallowing in debt
because she gets no assistance from her ex-husband, while
also dealing with their autistic son. As she's driving on a
country road from her place to her ex-husband's to again
beg for the money he owes her, Hilary encounters a scenario
that will alter all of their lives. Ahead of her on the
road, Hilary sees a car lose control and roll down a steep
incline. She stops to render aid, but finds that the man is
dead. She also discovers a briefcase containing $500,000
banded in bundles of $100 bills. With another witness
arriving on the scene, Hilary quickly decides to hide the
briefcase in the woods and return for it later.
As Hilary starts to use the $500,000 to pay off her debts,
she discovers the dead man was transporting the dirty money
for an illicit third party who will stop at nothing to get
it back. Fearing for her safety, as well as her son's,
Hilary enlists the assistance of the dead man's police-
officer son to trace the origin of the money. But the bad
guys are just as determined to alter the final outcome.
EVERYTHING TO LOSE by Andrew Gross delivers an
abundance of exhilarating twists and turns in a fast-paced,
realistic plot with some very intense narrative. Gross'
astutely developed thriller will keep readers riveted all
the way to its brilliant conclusion.
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.
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