Hidden Charges
by Ridley Pearson
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New York Times-bestselling author: This thriller about a suburban mall taken hostage by a madman offers “sheer edge-of-your-chair excitement” (Wilmington News-Journal).The setting is The Yankee Green—an enormous shopping center and entertainment mall located in a suburb of Boston. A self-sufficient, environmentally controlled, electronically secure indoor city, The Yankee Green has tens of thousands of people pass through its five pavilions every day. The children play in the show more indoor amusement park; young professionals work out in the state-of-the-art health club and jog on the atrium’s overhead running track; the elderly walk the promenades, sit on benches, chat under the fountains and in the manicured gardens.
But in the labyrinth of service halls that are weaved into the superstructure lurks a demon, a madman with a grudge who plans to hold five thousand people hostage with hidden explosives . . .
“A fine thriller.” —The Baltimore Sun
“[A] complex tale of greed, power and passion.” —Indianapolis News
Previously published as The Seizing of Yankee Green Mall. show less
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Probably a 3.5. Started out very muddled, we were introduced to characters very rapidly and I felt it was hard to keep track. That did eventually clear up and become an interesting, high paced thrill ride. Sometimes you have to suspend belief a little bit and just let the book lead you, but it worked. Very enjoyable.
Not nearly as exciting as I'd hoped it would be. There are about 50 pages near the end that are real page turners, but the preceding 150 or so didn't really engage me. There were too many storylines following separate groups of characters, many of which didn't really add to the overall plot. Also, the epilogue supposedly happens two weeks after the main events in the book (so says the section heading), but the text references the events as happening over a month ago. That glaring error really threw me off, and just capped off an overall underwhelming read.
After getting 1/3 of the way through, I decided that the book is about a shopping mall instead of about people. I gave it up.
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Ridley Pearson was born in Glen Cove, New York on March 13, 1953. He was educated at Kansas University and Brown University. In the early 1970s, he was a musician and songwriter for a rock band, eventually writing more than 300 songs and the score for an award-winning documentary. Having honed his craft writing scripts for television shows such as show more Columbo and Quincy, he turned to writing and published his first novel, Never Look Back, in 1985. His novels include The Angel Maker, No Witnesses, and Beyond Recognition. He has also published many children's books including The Kingdom Keepers series and a series of prequels to Peter Pan written with Dave Barry. His book Peter and the Starcatchers, written with Dave Barry, was adapted into a Broadway play that won 5 Tony Awards. He received the Raymond Chandler Fulbright Fellowship at Oxford University in 1990 and the Missouri Writer Hall of Fame Quill Award Winner in 2013. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Hidden Charges
- Original title
- The Seizing of Yankee Green Mall
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- Hidden Charges
- Original publication date
- 1987
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- Danish, English, Finnish, German
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