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    Audiobook (abridged)5 hours

    Ransom

    Written by Danielle Steel

    Narrated by Ron McLarty

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    A violent crime brings together four lives in Danielle Steel's sixtieth bestselling novel, the story of a mother's courage, a family's terror, and a triumph of human strength and dignity in the face of overwhelming odds.

    Outside the gates of a California prison, Peter Morgan is released after four long years and vows to redeem himself in the eyes of the young daughters he left behind. Simultaneously, Carl Waters, a convicted murderer, is set on the path of freedom with him. That night, three hundred miles south in San Francisco, police detective Ted Lee comes home to a silent house; for twenty-nine years, he has been living for his job-and slowly falling out of love with his wife. Across town, in an exclusive Pacific Heights neighborhood, a mother tries to shield her three children from the panic rising within her. Four months after her husband's death, Fernanda Barnes faces a mountain of debt she cannot repay, a world destroyed, and a marriage lost.

    Within weeks, the lives of these four people will collide in ways none of them could have foreseen. For Fernanda, whose life had once been graced by beautiful homes, security, success, and stunning wealth, the death of her brilliant, brooding husband was already too much to bear. She simply couldn't imagine a greater loss, until a devastating crime rocks her family to its core-and brings Detective Ted Lee into her life.
    A man of unshakable integrity, Lee will soon become the one person who tries to save Fernanda's family from a terrifying fate. Fernanda must draw on a strength she never knew she had. Racing against time in the underbelly of the criminal world, buffeted by the dark side of power, and unmoored by loss and betrayal, no one can predict where this tragedy will take them.

    Danielle Steel brilliantly explores the collision of a shocking crime with the ordinary lives of its victims in a novel that mesmerizes from start to finish. Ransom is at once a riveting evocation of life's inexplicable turns of fate and a testament to the human will to survive.


    From the Hardcover edition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateFeb 24, 2004
    ISBN9780553757101
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    Ransom
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    Danielle Steel

    Danielle Steel has been hailed as one of the world's most popular authors, with over 650 million copies of her novels sold. Her many international bestsellers include Property of a Noblewoman, Blue, Precious Gifts, Undercover, Country, Prodigal Son, Pegasus, A Perfect Life, and other highly acclaimed novels. She is also the author of His Bright Light, the story of her son Nick Traina's life and death; A Gift of Hope, a memoir of her work with the homeless; and the children's books Pretty Minnie in Paris and Pretty Minnie in Hollywood.

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    • 3/5
      Ok, but boring
    • 4/5
      The lives of five captives hang in the balance while their families gather the ransom.Two brothers, their family frantic to find their sons. A loner whose uncle doesn’t even know he’s missing. An Army brat whose family will never be able to raise enough money. And a cheerleader who can’t count on her stepdad, but knows her father will come through.
    • 5/5
      it is suspence/thriller that takes place in new Mexico. It is about these kids that all are different have different personalites. They dident know that the substitute is the kidnapper. they figure out that he has a gun and he only wants the last couple of kids to kidnapp because Most of the kids famlly has alot of money. It is a great book for people who like suspence or thriller's
    • 4/5
      I'm far from young adult but every now and then I'll read books geared to them (for example, the hilarious series,"My Teacher is an Alien").Ransom had good suspense, an unexpected turn (at least, for me), and well defined characters with interesting interplay between them, espeically between Dexter, Bruce, and Jesse.
    • 5/5
      Another tight, suspenseful thriller from Lois Duncan! Five students living in a rich area of town are kidnapped and held for ransom. The perspective switches occasionally from the teens to the parents and we find that each family has problems and secrets. The characters, as well as their background, are incredibly well-developed, especially for a book that comes in at under 200 pages. The plot was very suspenseful and just when you thought you knew how it would end you were thrown for a twist. The back of my book states that Lois Duncan has written 45 books, so I can see I've got a lot more reading ahead of me. Highly recommended!
    • 3/5
      A definite guilty pleasure. 5 high school kids are kidnapped because the kidnappers believe they are wealthy...however, appearances can be deceiving. I think these teen horror stories are pretty well-written as fluff goes.
    • 4/5
      After reading this, the first thought that comes to mind is "The Breakfast Club on a field trip". You have your "All-American Good Guy", the "Princess", the "Loner", the "Weird Chick", and the "Younger Dweeby Kid", all stuck together as part of a poorly planned group kidnapping plot. The book is fairly slim (being originally written for a young adult audience), but I still found the plotline gripping, and pretty much couldn't put the book down once I started it.
    • 4/5
      1966 Doubleday library binding - I'm pretty sure it's the first edition.

      This is a good suspenseful study for a middle grade story. I've seen it listed as YA. It's not. Unless one gets into the personality study the story isn't going to be exciting for anyone over maybe 15. And the personality/psychological study is on a younger level. I debated whether it should get the fourth star as, even for me, it didn't have an ageless appeal.