Category - Fiction / Suspense & Thrillers
Format - Hardcover
Condition - New
Listed - A year ago
Views - 2
Ships From - Alabama
Est. Publication Date - Sep 2019
Seller Description
#hardcover#fiction#thriller#suspense It all begins on Monday, one for people, born in elevator in Manhattan office tower. Each presses a button for the floor, but the elevator proceeds, nonstop, to the top. Once they are, it causes for a few seconds, but the doors don’t open. Instead, the elevator begins to descend floor by floor. Then implements. Right to the bottom of the shaft. It appears to be a random accident, that kind of thing that seems to happen all too often in a city like New York: crane collapse, subway, fire… Elevator malfunction. But on Tuesday, it happens again, and a different Manhattan skyscraper. And then Wednesday brings you had another tragic, high-rise catastrophe. And only three days, one of the most vertical cities in the world – and the nations capital of media, finance, and entertainment – is plunged into chaos. Clearly, this is anything but random. This is a cold, calculated bid to terrorize the city. And it’s working. Fearing for their lives, thousands of people who work in high-rises across the city refuse to leave their homes. Commerce has slow to a trickle. Emergency calls to the top floors of apartment towers go unanswered. The mayor, already embroiled in a growing scandal, is desperate for answers. Who is behind this? Why are they doing it? Are these deadly acts of sabotage somehow connected to a fingerless body found on the Highline? To season New York detectives and a straight shooting journalist race against time to uncover the truth before the cities, newest, and tallest, residential tower has its ribbon-cutting on Friday night. With each diabolical twist, Linwood Barclay, ratchets up the suspense, building to a shattering finale. Pulsating with tension, elevator pitch is a riveting tale of psychological suspense that is all to plausible… And will chill you to the bone.
Additional Information
Elevator Pitch: A Novel
ISBN: 9780062678287
Publisher Description
The New York Times bestselling author of A Noise Downstairs and No Time for Goodbye returns with an edge-of-your-seat thriller that does for elevators what Psycho did for showers and Jaws did for the ...
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