This is brilliant craftsmanship in a vastly entertaining package. The finished picture finally emerges with a shock of recognition. As the ingenious plot folds back on itself, the reader has to reevaluate and reinterpret the constantly shifting 'facts' in the case. * New York Times *Ī clever, demanding stand-alone. as the pace quickens and the story continues to backtrack, solid evidence, established plot points and sturdily built characters all begin to come undone, until what started out as an interactive game becomes a truly unnerving exercise in deception. The reader is never lied to in Deaver's brilliant shell game, merely misdirected, and the best part of this trick is that despite being in on the game, we continue to make false assumptions. Jeffery Deaver's most fiendish thriller ever. But after the reverse journey reaches the couple's first meeting, his gamble is thoroughly vindicated by a series of twists in which he resembles a conjuror who each time seems to have performed his final trick, but then tops it. It's very readable * The Times *Įven halfway through, it seems possible that Deaver has been defeated by the mind-boggling technical challenge of delivering surprises in back-to-front time. In THE OCTOBER LIST, the always entertaining Jeffery Deaver attempts the almost impossible: the back-to-front thriller, beginning with its climax and ending with the planning of the initial crime. Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton ISBN: 9781444780475 Number of pages: 384 Weight: 270 g Dimensions: 197 x 138 x 26 mm MEDIA REVIEWS as the pace quickens and the story continues to backtrack, solid evidence, established plot points and sturdily built characters all begin to come undone, until what started out as an interactive game becomes a truly unnerving exercise in deception' New York Times

The ultimate thriller writer, Jeffery Deaver puts your brain - and your nerves - to the ultimate test with The October List, in a masterful mystery that unfolds from the end back to the beginning with many a breath-taking twist along the way.

To know what happened, you must work backwards, piecing together the events that came before.

You wait, desperately, for news of your daughter.īut it is not the negotiators, or the FBI.Įvery crime scene begins at the end.

The October List by Jeffery Deaver