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High Noon

By Nora Roberts

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| Paperback | 9780749938024

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Police Lieutenant Phoebe MacNamara found her calling at an early age when an unstable man broke into her family's home, trapping and terrorizing them for hours. Now she's Savannah's top hostage negotiator, defusing powderkeg situations with a talent for knowing when to give in-and when to jump in anContinue

Police Lieutenant Phoebe MacNamara found her calling at an early age when an unstable man broke into her family's home, trapping and terrorizing them for hours. Now she's Savannah's top hostage negotiator, defusing powderkeg situations with a talent for knowing when to give in-and when to jump in and take action. It's satisfying work-and sometimes those skills come in handy at home dealing with her agoraphobic mother, still traumatized by the break-in after all these years, and her precocious seven-year-old, Carly.

It's exactly that heady combination of steely courage and sensitivity that first attracts Duncan Swift to Phoebe. After observing her coax one of his employees down from a roof ledge, he is committed to keeping this intriguing, take-charge woman in his life. She's used to working solo, but Phoebe's discovering that no amount of negotiation can keep Duncan at arm's length.

And when she's grabbed by a man who throws a hood over her head and brutally assaults her-in her own precinct house-Phoebe can't help but be deeply shaken. Then threatening messages show up on her doorstep, and she's not just alarmed but frustrated. How do you go face-to-face with an opponent who refuses to look you in the eye?

Now, with Duncan backing her up every step of the way, she must establish contact with the faceless tormentor who is determined to make her a hostage to fear . . . before she becomes the final showdown.

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  • The Best Reviews: Nora Roberts, High Noon

    "one sitting action-packed thriller" Savannah Police Lieutenant Phoebe MacNamara is the Georgia city's top hostage negotiator. Her work is how she meets sports bar owner Duncan Swift when he observes her talk a leaper whom he just fired from jumping. ... (read full critics)

    thebestreviews published on Thu, 16 Sep 2010

  • High Noon

    Desert Isle Keeper Review High Noon Nora Roberts is one of those writers who rarely, if ever, does wrong. Most of what she writes, in my opinion, is worth picking up. I don’t know how she does it, but her new contemporary romantic suspense High Noon ... (read full critics)

    likesbooks published on Tue, 31 Aug 2010

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  • i liked the tension, the flashbacks, the fact that you were constantly scanning the book for somebody that could fit the profile of her attacker... really a good read.

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 412 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0749938021
  • ISBN-13: 9780749938024
  • Publisher: Piatkus Books
  • Pub date: Jul 05, 2007
  • Also available as: Hardcover, Others and eBook
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