內容簡介
內容簡介 全球第一位且唯一連續兩部作品獲得愛倫‧坡最佳小說獎作者，睽違5年約翰‧哈特重磅回歸自從首部小說《The King of Lies》大賣後，全球各地的書評皆對約翰‧哈特讚譽有加，甚至認為他的作品風格宛如帕特‧康羅伊、戈馬克．麥卡錫及史考特．杜羅等大師。每一本新作品，都帶領他走向寫作高峰，甚至成為《紐約時報》的暢銷書常客。其中作品《順流而下》(Down River)及《最後的守護人》(The Last Child)連續獲得愛倫‧坡最佳小說獎。一名男孩正持槍等待著殺母兇手。一位爭議不斷的探員因為一起殘忍的槍擊案影響，開始面對她最不願回憶的過往。入獄30年後，一名善良的警察重獲自由，異常冷靜的他宛如廢棄教堂祭壇前的冰冷屍體…。這是一個一觸即發的小鎮，一段救贖之路即將展開。緊張、充滿秘密及背叛的故事情節，再次證明約翰‧哈特仍穩作驚悚之王寶座。Elizabeth Black is a hero. She is a cop who single-handedly rescued a young girl from a locked cellar and shot two brutal kidnappers dead. But she's also a cop with a history, a woman with a secret. And she's not the only one.Adrian Wall is finally free after thirteen years of torture and abuse. In the very first room he walks into, a boy with a gun is waiting to avenge the death of his mother. But that is the least of Adrian's problems.He was safer in prison.And deep in the forest, on the altar of an abandoned church, a body cools in pale linen. It is not the first to be found.This is a town on the brink.This is Redemption Road.Brimming with tension, secrets, and betrayal, brilliantly evoking an America of small towns and remote landscapes, of the abandoned, the derelict and the desperate, this is a novel so chillingly suspenseful and a story so full of twists and turns that you simply cannot stop reading. It marks a new high point in the writing of this bestselling master of the literary thriller.
