彩票中獎者
頁 數/Pages:592
裝 幀/Format:平裝
紙 張/Paper:膠版紙
正文語種/Language:英文
定 價：￥82.80
內容簡介
LuAnn Tyler is an unwed mother striving to escape a life of endless poverty. Then a mysterious Mr Jackson makes her an offer he thinks no one can refuse: a guarantee to be the winner of the $100 million lottery. But LuAnn won't do it. Less than twenty-four hours later, she is fighting for her life and running from a false murder charge. Jackson's offer - and its condition that she leave the country forever - seems her only hope. However, ten years later, LuAnn secretly returns to the United States to begin a new life with Matthew Riggs, a man whose origins are as murky as her own. But a canny reporter has picked up her trail, as have the FBI - and Jackson. Matt Riggs is the only person who can help her. But is help what Matt intends or is he too closing in for the kill?
中文簡介
LuAnn泰勒是一個未婚媽媽努力擺脫生活的無盡的貧窮。然後一個神秘的傑克遜先生使她提出一個他認為沒有人可以拒絕:保證獲勝1億美元的彩票。但LuAnn不會這么做的。不到24小時後,她正在為她的生活和運行,從一個虛假的謀殺的費用。傑克遜的報價-及其條件,那就是她永遠離開這個國家-看起來似乎是她唯一的希望。然而,十年之後,LuAnn偷偷地回到了美國,開始新的生活和馬太福音里格斯,一位男士,他的起源是為自己的黑暗。但一位精明的記者已經起了她的小道,美國聯邦調查局(FBI)-和傑克遜。馬特里唯一一個能幫助她。但什麼是馬特意圖或幫助他也關閉了殺?
作者簡介
David Baldacci is the seven-time New York Times best-selling author of ABSOLUTE POWER, TOTAL CONTROL, THE WINNER, THE SIMPLE TRUTH, SAVING FAITH, WISH YOU WELL and LAST MAN STANDING. His latest novel, SPLIT SECOND, is published in December 2003. He lives in Virginia with his wife and two children.
戴維·鮑爾達奇，1960年出生於美國維吉尼亞，從中學開始就養成了寫作的習慣，習慣於專注觀察周遭事物以獲取靈感。從維吉尼亞聯邦大學獲得政治學學士學位後，他又從維吉尼亞大學獲得了法學學位。作為一名辯護律師和商務律師，鮑爾達奇先生在華盛頓法律界工作了9年，豐富的司法經驗為他從事推理、犯罪小說寫作奠定了深厚的基礎。1996年，鮑爾達奇出版了他的第一部長篇小說《絕對權力》，該書隨即成為了全美暢銷書，並獲得多項文學大獎。此後，戴維·鮑爾達奇幾乎以每年一本新書的速度，迅速成為美國暢銷小說界的新星。他的書被翻譯成37種語言，發行多達80多個國家，全球銷售量超過四千萬冊。
媒體評論
Irritatingly trite woman-in-periler from lawyer-turned-novelist Baldacci. Moving away from the White House and the white-shoe Washington law firms of his previous bestsellers (Absolute Power, 1996; Total Control, 1997), Baldacci comes up with LuAnn Tyler, a spunky, impossibly beautiful, white-trash truck stop waitress with a no-good husband and a terminally cute infant daughter in tow. Some months after the birth of Lisa, LuAnn gets a phone call summoning her to a make-shift office in an unrented storefront of the local shopping mall. There, she gets a Faustian offer from a Mr. Jackson, a monomaniacal, cross-dressing manipulator who apparently knows the winning numbers in the national lottery before the numbers are drawn. It seems that LuAnn fits the media profile of what a lottery winner should be--poor, undereducated but proud--and if she's willing to buy the right ticket at the right time and transfer most of her winnings to Jackson, she'll be able to retire in luxury. Jackson fails to inform her, however, that if she refuses his offer, he'll have her killed. Before that can happen, as luck would have it, LuAnn barely escapes death when one of husband Duane's drug deals goes bad. She hops on a first-class Amtrak sleeper to Manhattan with a hired executioner in pursuit. But executioner Charlie, one of Jackson's paid handlers, can't help but hear wedding bells when he sees LuAnn cooing with her daughter. Alas, a winning $100- million lottery drawing complicates things. Jackson spirits LuAnn and Lisa away to Sweden, with Charlie in pursuit. Never fear. Not only will LuAnn escape a series of increasingly violent predicaments, but she'll also outwit Jackson, pay an enormous tax bill to the IRS, and have enough left over to honeymoon in Switzerland. Too preposterous to work as feminine wish-fulfillment, too formulaic to be suspenseful.
-- Kirkus Reviews
從lawyer-turned-novelist Baldacci陳腐的woman-in-periler參與名稱討厭。遠離了白宮和white-shoe華盛頓先前,他的暢銷書律師事務所(絕對的權力,1996分;一體化控制,1997),Baldacci想出LuAnn泰勒,生氣蓬勃,不可思議的美麗的白草包卡車停止的女服務員,一個用處的丈夫和一個垂死的可愛的嬰兒的女兒拖在後面。幾個月後出生的麗莎,LuAnn得到一個電話make-shift召喚她的辦公室在一個unrented店面的地方購物中心。在那裡,她有一種浮士德提議從先生傑克遜,一個monomaniacal,顯然知道誰喜歡穿異性服裝機械手贏得全國彩票號碼在編號拉。看來LuAnn適合媒體剖面的樂透得主應該——窮,但很有骨氣再——如果她願意買正確的票在正確的時間和轉移她的大部分獎金傑克遜,她就可以退休,奢侈。傑克遜未能通知她,然而,如果她拒絕他的提議,他會殺了她。在那之前可能發生,很不幸,LuAnn勉強逃脫死亡的時候一個丈夫的慣犯的毒品交易變壞了。她跳上沉睡,一流的公司去曼哈頓一輛租來的劊子手在追求。但劊子手查理,傑克遜的一個支付處理器,不禁聽到婚禮的鐘聲了的時候,他看見LuAnn咕咕叫著與她的女兒。唉,一個贏得100元-的彩票圖紙複雜的事情。傑克遜精神LuAnn和麗莎去瑞典,查理在追求。不要恐懼。LuAnn不僅能逃脫了一系列越來越猛烈的困境,但她也會騙過傑克遜,支付一個巨大的稅務發票國稅,並且有足夠的瑞士去度蜜月。太荒謬的工作,作為女性完美理想,也要懸疑的公式。
——這個評論
