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作者： David Baldacci 著
出 版 社： Oversea Publishing House
出版时间： 1998-12-1字数：版次： 1页数： 628印刷时间： 1998/12/01开本： 32开印次： 1纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 070993007997包装： 平装编辑推荐
作者简介：
DAVID BALDACCI lives in Virginia. For more information visit www.david-baldacci.com and sign up for the David Baldacci eNewsletter at www.twbookmark.com.
内容简介
Book DescriptionFor if LuAnn Tyler comes home,she will be pitted against the deadliest contestant of all：the chameleonlike financial mastermind who changed her life.And who can take it away at will...Amazon.co.ukWhat would you do to change your life?LuAnn is beautiful,young and dirt poor.She's married to a low-level drugs dealer whose infidelities and incompetent double-dealing put her and her child's lives at risk.Enter master-criminal "Jackson" who offers her vast wealth if she agrees to help him fiddle the lottery.She refuses until she finds herself on the run from false charges of murder.After years abroad she returns because she wants her daughter to be an American teenager.Can she escape the FBI,an inquisitive journalist and the murderous and endlessly ingenious Jackson?The Winner is a departure for Baldacci.LuAnn is as plucky and resourceful as the heroines of Absolute Power and Total Control,but the plot she inhabits is a new departure for him.Normally he shows us a dark vision of how things really work,but here he brings to life and makes plausible what might have been pulp cliches.As in the description of Jackson,a master of disguise："Sitting across from her was her double,or the double of the woman she had just become.The same short red hair,facial complexion,crooked nose,everything：it was as though she had suddenly discovered a twin".What's more,his method of rigging lotteries is clever and convincing enough to worry lottery organisers the world over.Perhaps the sunniest and least cynical of Baldacci's thrillers,The Winner is an intelligent,exciting and deeply moral read whose switchback plot is full of surprises and touching moments.：Roz Kaveney From Kirkus ReviewsIrritatingly 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.（Book-of-the-Month Club main selection）From Library JournalAbsolute Power.Total Control.And now The Winner：Baldacci doesn't settle for second best.Here,his heroine,who gets rich after being forced to participate in a fixed lottery,is wanted for murder.From AudioFileThis deliciously entertaining thriller has all the right ingredients：suspense,a strange but brilliant villain and a woman lifted out of poverty into privilegeDbut with a price.LuAnn Tyler is smart,beautiful,but desperately poor,working as a waitress and living with an abusive boyfriend and her greatly loved infant daughter.When a stranger offers her the chance to win millions of dollars in the national lottery,LuAnn's new life,which will ultimately lead her into danger as great as her wealth,begins.Frances Cassidy's narration is rich,sultry and powerful.Through degree of accent and inflection,she conveys the very different person LuAnn becomes,thanks to education and travel.Cassidy also perfectly captures both the streetwise Charlie （LuAnn's friend and companion） and the menacing Mr.Jackson.The suspenseful conclusion keeps the listener breathless,thanks to Baldacci's plotting and Cassidy's pacing and flawless emotional pitch.M.A.M.An AUDIOFILE Earphones Award Winner.Book Dimensionlength：（cm）16.3width：（cm）10.7-读书网|DuShu.com
