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基本信息·出版社：Coronet Books
·页码：512 页
·出版日期：2004年11月
·ISBN：0340836431
·条形码：9780340836439
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
·外文书名：罪大恶极 (小说)
内容简介 Carl Herbold enjoys being bad. And he is terrifyingly good at it. He graduated easily from juvenile delinquent to full-blown killer. Now he has carried out a daring escape from jail and is headed back to where it all began. Anna Corbett was widowed right before her son was born. Beset by debt and personal tragedy, she faces the toughest challenge of her life - holding on to the ranch that is her son's birthright - unaware that she is at the centre of Carl Herbold's vengeful plan. Drifter Jack Sawyer is a seemingly easygoing cowboy whose past is shrouded in mystery. Stalked by secrets he can no longer outrun, he is hoping to protect Anna and her son from Herbold's rage. All must grapple with their own demons before the final tumultuous confrontation.
作者简介 Sandra Brown is the author of more than sixty books, of which forty were New York Times bestsellers, including the number one New York Times bestsellers The Alibi, Unspeakable, Fat Tuesday, Exclusive, The Witness, Charade, Where There's Smoke and French Kiss. Her novels have been published in thirty languages. She and her husband divide their time between homes in Texas and South Carolina.
编辑推荐 Amazon.com Review Anna Corbett is deaf and mute, but she's not stupid. When the young widow is told by her aging father-in-law, Delray Corbett, that Jack Sawyer has been hired to work their eastern Texas ranch merely as an extra pair of hands, Anna knows that it's really the news of criminal Carl Herbold's recent prison break that has Corbett hiring the tough drifter. Carl Herbold, along with his brother Cecil, swore vengeance against Corbett, their stepfather, for cooperating with the police when the two were convicted of armed robbery. The Herbold boys were also suspected of another crime--the murder of young Patsy McCorkle--but Ezzy Hardge, then sheriff of Blewer County, Texas, never found the proof needed to go to trial. Twenty years have passed, and the McCorkle murder remains a mystery. A man obsessed, Ezzy Hardge continues to search for clues that will convict the Herbolds of the monstrous murder. Soon, Carl and his brother will take their revenge. But Anna and her 5-year-old son, David, are unaware of the degree of viciousness with which the Herbold brothers can strike. Only hired hand Jack Sawyer knows the real danger, and his growing love for Anna and David keeps him close despite the impending onslaught. Yet the longer he remains in Blewer, the more he risks revealing his past--and one particular secret that may destroy his only chance at Anna's love. In
Unspeakable, Sandra Brown once again flexes her "literary muscle," providing a fast-paced, spine-tingling tale of passion, conspiracy, and stark brutality. It's a story that unfolds through the eyes of diverse, compelling characters, and culminates in a delicious ending you won't expect.
--Kate Breslin --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Publishers Weekly A 20-year-old unsolved murder in a small East Texas town sets the stage for this fast-paced and romantically charged, if stiffly written, thriller, the latest (after Fat Tuesday) from the prolific Brown. Everyone in Blewer, Tex., assumes that the nefarious Herbold brothers, Carl and Cecil, murdered Patsy McCorkle two decades ago, but neither was ever charged with the killing. Carl, the more menacing brother, has spent those decades in an Arkansas prison for an unrelated crime. But now Carl has escaped and Blewer residents fear he might come back to town. Local rancher Delray Corbett has more to fear than mostAthe Herbolds are his estranged stepsons. So when drifter Jack Sawyer swaggers onto Delray's ranch looking for work, Delray hires him, thinking that Jack's presence will ease his mind regarding the safety of his deaf, widowed daughter-in-law, Anna, and her five-year-old son, David. But Delray doesn't know that Jake has a closer connection to Blewer, and to the Corbetts, than he's letting on. Brown's deftly plotted narrative twists and turns without losing hold of its suspense. Her characters are fully fleshed out, and she pays particular attention to Anna's situation as a deaf woman facing ignorance in a rural community. Some graphic sex and violence and the voices of these east Texan good (and bad) ol' boys animate this harrowing tale of crime, revenge and redemption. Major ad/promo; Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club main selections.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Library Journal Deaf widow Anna Corbett, her young son, and her father-in-law hire a drifter, Jack Sawyer, as a handyman on their small east Texas ranch. There's much to do around the place since Anna's husband died and his two wild stepbrothers were sent up for murder. Patriarch Delray Corbett wants to preserve the ranch despite increasing pressure from a smarmy developer. Jack's a hard worker, and he's deeply attracted to Anna and young David. Meanwhile, evil stepbrother Carl escapes from prison and sets off a chain reaction of robbery, brutality, and murder as he moves ever closer to the Corbett ranch. He's bent on revenge for being nailed by his daddy for a murder he claims he didn't commit. As the story plays out in a maelstrom of death and destruction, it becomes increasingly clear that Jack holds the key to Carl's alibi, an unsolved murder, and the mystery surrounding Anna's self-imposed silence. Brown (Fat Tuesday, LJ 5/1/97) is a master at weaving a story of romance, action, and suspense into a tight web that catches and holds the reader from first page to last. This is sure to be a hit with fans of her previous works and gain her an even wider readership. Highly recommended.
-ASusan Clifford, Aerospace Corp., El Segundo, CACopyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Booklist Another surefire blockbuster from the phenomenally best-selling Brown, a skilled pop-novelist who calculatedly combines romance with brutality in her steamy, relentless thrillers. Brown writes with vehement vulgarity and extravagant bloodthirstiness when tracking the pillaging, raping, and killing spree performed by her vicious villain, Carl, and his moronic sidekick, Myron, who are cheap and, frankly, shameless knockoffs of the stars of Steinbeck's
Of Mice and Men. She then switches to soft-focus, sexy love-babble as her damsel in distress, a pretty young widow who just happens to be deaf (a disability Brown manages to cast as both heroic and titillating), falls for Jack, the hired hand, a mystery man who appears just prior to the onset of big trouble. The sleazy action begins on both fronts when Carl and Myron break out of prison. News of their escape stirs up old fears and sorrows all across East Texas, causing Ezzy Hardge, the newly and reluctantly retired sheriff, a spate of sleepless nights. Ezzy has been grieving for more than 20 years over the unsolved murder of a notorious young woman, a murder he and everyone else believes Carl committed. The truth is finally revealed after the bloodbath subsides, and after Brown finishes raiding and tarnishing a slew of classic American novels. No matter: people absolutely adore this stuff.
Donna Seaman --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Kirkus Reviews Styleless and clich-besotted though the works of the queen of Texas melodrama may be, her last novel--1997's Mardi Gras sleaze extravaganza Fat Tuesday--got a first printing of 500,000 and the nod from two book clubs. Here, convicted killer Carl Herbold escapes from Tucker prison and heads for East Texas. Drifter Jack Sawyer, with whom Herbold has a fatal destiny, has also arrived in East Texas and landed a job at a cattle ranch where deaf widow Anna Corbett and five-year-old son David live with her father-in-law--and where the vile acts of Herbold will be played out. Will Sawyer get ``unspeakable'' Anna to speak at last? Most Texans who read this will think these pages, with their strong Texas twang singing through, could have dropped from their own mouths. And they did. (Literary Guild main selection; TV satellite tour) --
Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Review 'A masterful storyteller, carefully crafting tales that keep readers on the edge of their seats' -- USA Today 'The suspense is keep-the-lights-on riveting' -- Dallas Morning News
