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International Best Seller.  A MAIDEN’S GRAVE by Jeffery Deaver.  A school bus with eight deaf school-girls and their teachers brakes suddenly on a flat Kansas highway. They should never have stopped. Waiting for them are three heartless prison escapees, all men with nothing to lose. With the girls as their hostages, they have now have everything to gain. They make their stand in an abandoned slaughterhouse, and Lou Handy, a murderer and the convicts’ ringleader, announces his terms: to kill one captive an hour unless his demands are met.

What follows is a twelve-hour battle of nerves and mounting tension between Handy and the FBI’s senior hostage negotiator.

A Thriller to the End