| Product Summary | | Format: Hardcover | | ISBN: 9780316018777 | | Publisher: Little Brown and Company | | Publish Date: 6/29/2009 | | Buy.com Sku: 210405734 | | Item#: | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 67108 | | Dimensions (in Inches) 9.5H x 6.25L x 1.5T | | Pages: 416 |
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| | | THE BEACH...
A breathtakingly beautiful supermodel disappears from a swimsuit photo shoot at the most glamorous hotel in Hawaii. Only hours after she goes missing, Kim McDaniels's parents receive a terrifying phone call. Fearing the worst, they board the first flight to Maui and begin the hunt for their daughter.
...WILL NEVER BE...
Ex-cop Ben Hawkins, now a reporter for the L.A. Times, gets the McDaniels assignment. The ineptitude of the local police force defies belief--Ben has to start his own investigation for Kim McDaniels to have a prayer. And for Ben to have the story of his life.
...THE SAME FOR YOU AGAIN.
All the while, the killer sets the stage for his next production. His audience expects the best--and they won't be disappointed. Swimsuit is a heart-pounding story of fear and desire, transporting you to a place where beauty and murder collide and unspeakable horrors are hidden within paradise.
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Experiencing their worst nightmare, the parents of Kim McDaniels--a ravishingly beautiful swimsuit model--receive a phone call from a sinister man informing them that their daughter has fallen into the wrong hands. Without a moment's hesitation, the McDanielses are on their way to Hawaii, where Kim was on a photo shoot. Also arriving in the tropical paradise in search of Kim is Ben Hawkins, a successful L.A. journalist and crime novelist. His motives are careerist for coming, but he is soon swept up in a frightening pursuit of a demented killer.
| Author Bio| James Patterson | | James Patterson grew up in Newburgh, New York, 50 miles north of New York City. Valedictorian of his class at the Christian Brothers school, St. Patrick's, in 1965, Patterson graduated from Manhattan College with a degree in English. He first entertained the idea of becoming a writer in 1971 when he worked as a college student in a mental institution, a job that afforded him abundant time to read. He came up with the idea for his first novel during that time, and five years later, after 26 rejection slips, his first effort, "The Thomas Berryman Number", appeared in bookstores. Since that time, Patterson has written numerous best-selling thrillers featuring the sensitive, modern-day hero Alex Cross, including "Kiss the Girls", which was made into a major motion picture starring Morgan Freeman. |
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