Panic (novel)
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Panic is a 2005 thriller by Jeff Abbott about an unsuspecting young documentary film maker, Evan, whose life is turned upside down when he realizes that his parents have been working as spies throughout their lives. One morning his mother phones him and asks him to come to her urgently, but when he arrives at her home she has just been murdered. She is suspected by other spies of having compiled a list containing the names of clients, but it cannot be found anywhere. This is why a group of her former "colleagues" thinks she must somehow have passed on the list to her son.
Evan must struggle through his mother's death and meets FBI agents, cold-hearted killers, and double-crossers, and friends- trying to find his father, get his revenge on the people who murdered his mother, and uncover all the secrets about the lie he believed was his life.
Panic is due to be made in to a film in 2011.[1]
[edit] Critical reception
RTÉ.ie described the book as an "absorbing thriller" that is "a fast, furious and fun read".[2] Oline Cogdill of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel said that Abbott takes the novel "just to the boundaries of disbelief", but still manages to make it "credible" and "still a shocker".[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Salamon, Jeff (August 23, 2005). "Breakout!". Austin American-Statesman. http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=AASB&p_theme=aasb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=10C325F8B042C450&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM. Retrieved October 20, 2010.
- ^ "Panic by Jeff Abbott". RTÉ.ie. July 4, 2006. http://www.rte.ie/ten/2006/0704/abbottj.html. Retrieved October 20, 2010.
- ^ Cogdill, Oline (August 14, 2005). "Plenty of Reasons to Panic". South Florida Sun-Sentinel. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sun_sentinel/access/881842191.html?dids=881842191:881842191&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Aug+14%2C+2005&author=OLINE+H.+COGDILL&pub=South+Florida+Sun+-+Sentinel&desc=PLENTY+OF+REASONS+TO+PANIC&pqatl=google. Retrieved October 20, 2010.
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