Hidden Charges [Mass Market Paperback]

Ridley Pearson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 15, 1993

It's the boldest, most satisfying Ridley Pearson novel ever-the one that confirms his status as today's most powerful thriller writer!

No one writes heartpounding suspense like Ridley Pearson. In Undercurrents, his taut, edge-of-the-seat plot gripped you from the start and didn't release you until the sharp, thrilling conclusion. In Probable Cause, he brought you to a whole new level of hard-edged excitement. Now he turns it up another notch, in Hidden Charges.

In this "complex tale of greed, power and passion" (Indianapolis News), a shopper's paradise becomes a city under siege-held hostage by a madman armed with the skills and the weapons of a trained soldier, and possessed with an uncontrollable lust for vengeance, destruction...and death.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Ridley Pearson is one hell of a writer...He grabs, he twists, he tightens the screws until you're drained." --Clive Cussler

"Sheer edge-of-your-chair excitement!" --Wilmington News-Journal

"Epic in scope...Strongly cinematic." --Milwaukee Journal

"A fine thriller." --Baltimore Sun

"Engrossing...A page-turner." --Gerald Green

About the Author

Ridley Pearson is the award-winning coauthor, along with Dave Barry, of Peter and the Starcatchers, Peter and the Shadow Thieves, Peter and the Secret of Rundoon, Peter and Sword of Mercy, Escape from the Carnivale, Cave of the Dark Wind, Blood Tide, and Science Fair. He has also written more than twenty best-selling crime novels, inlcuding Killer View and Killer Weekend, and the young adult fantasies Kingdom Keepers-Disney After Dark, Kingdom Keepers II-Disney at Dawn, and Kingdom Keepers III-Disney in Shadow. He was the first American to be awarded the Raymond Chandler/Fulbright Fellowship in Detective Fiction at Oxford University.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 372 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks (May 15, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312929595
• ISBN-13: 978-0312929596
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #819,385 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Ridley Pearson (www.ridleypearson.com), the first American to be awarded the Raymond Chandler/Fulbright Fellowship in Detective Fiction at Wadham College, Oxford University, is the bestselling author of over 35 novels including, Peter And the Starcatchers (co-written with Dave Barry), the young adult novel, The Kingdom Keepers, and two dozen crime novels including: Probable Cause, Beyond Recognition and Killer Weekend (July 2007). His novel The Diary Of Ellen Rimbauer, a prequel to a Stephen King miniseries, was a New York Times #1 bestseller, as was Peter and the Shadow Thieves (#1 for 6 weeks). Ridley adapted The Diary Of Ellen Rimbaurer for ABC Television; it aired in 2003.

Peter and the Starcatchers is to open as a stage play, off-Broadway in March 2011, under Disney Theatrical.

Ridley is a founding member of, and plays bass guitar in, the all-author rock band, The Rockbottom Remainders (www.rockbottomremainders.com), with Dave Barry, Stephen King, Scott Turow, Mitch Albom, Amy Tan and Greg Iles. The band has raised over 2.5 million dollars for charities over its 18 year history.

Customer Reviews

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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Ride, April 11, 2001

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Normal Person (San Diego) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hidden Charges (Mass Market Paperback)

Forget any bad review, this is a great thriller, perfect for the summer.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hidden Charges, April 7, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Hidden Charges (Mass Market Paperback)

A must for readers who want a suspense novel that grabs you from the first chapter and doesn't let go until the last page. Hidden Charges is one more reason I remain a Ridley Pearson fan.

7 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Boooring!, May 16, 2000

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Phyrephox (Los Gatos, Ca USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Hidden Charges (Mass Market Paperback)

Don't waste your money. In fact, don't waste your time reading the rest of this review. The book's not worth it.

The plot is so thinly strung across the books' 350+ pages that you keep forgetting what it's about.

There are so many characters introduced that have nothing to do with the plot that I had to keep reminding myself that the book was not supposed to be about tight bodies and the incredibly boring details of how a shopping mall is run.

The formula: a collection of high school dating cliches, a look at mall life through the eyes of a security guard (the big news here is that they get sore feet) and a lecture about how union laborers are lazy and how security guards are smarter than "real" cops.

Oops, I forgot to mention: someone wants to blow up the mall. I guess it's because this fact gets lost in pages about thawing fish and changing your dress three times for a date.

The only mystery here is why this was published.