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  • Published: 31 May 2010
  • ISBN: 9780141960111
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 512

Think of a Number




Twin Peaks meets Tell No One in the mindblowing thriller that is set to become one of the most talked about publishing events of 2010

It begins with a letter . . . The letter contains a request - think of a number, any number - and a sealed envelope. Inside the envelope is that number.

When Dave Gurney, retired NYPD homicide detective, is contacted by an old college acquaintance about some startling letters he's been receiving, it is at first little more than a diverting but sinister puzzle. Until the acquaintance is brutally killed.

Suddenly Gurney finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation that makes no sense. The killer seems to have known his victim intimately. How else was he able to predict his victim's thoughts, even his actions? How did he know his darkest secrets?

The killer is smart and he is playing with the police. Gurney needs to be smarter if he's going to catch him, but this seems only to be the beginning. And the killer alone knows where it will end.

  • Published: 31 May 2010
  • ISBN: 9780141960111
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 512

About the author

John Verdon

John Verdon is a former Manhattan advertising executive who lives with his wife in the mountains of upstate New York.  His first two Dave Gurney novels, Think of a Number and Shut Your Eyes Tight, are both international bestsellers.

http://www.johnverdon.net

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Praise for Think of a Number

Written with pace, style, intelligence, teasing puzzles and lots of tension.The number I'm thinking of is 1!

Reginald Hill