You're Next

Mike Wingate, abandoned by his father at four and raised in foster care, is finally living the life he always dreamed of — he’s happily married with a precocious 8-year-old daughter, and his construction company is about to finish a “green” housing development that will secure a solid future for them all. But then something from his own past, a past he doesn’t even remember, comes back to visit terror upon him and his family.Shady characters begin threatening Mike and, when he reports them, the police seem more interested in Mike’s murky past than in protecting him. Now, with Mike, his wife Annabel and daughter Kat suddenly under attack from all sides, Mike turns to Shep, a dangerous man — and Mike’s only true friend — from his childhood days in foster care. Together they will do whatever it takes to protect Mike’s family against the hidden men behind the terrifying warning, “You’re Next.” When bestselling thriller writer Andrew Danner wakes up in a hospital bed with no idea how he got there, he is horrified to be told that he is responsible for the murder of his ex-fiancee. In the resulting celebrity trial, Drew is exonerated on the grounds of temporary insanity caused by a recent brain tumour. But he still has no idea if he did kill Genevieve, and is desperate to find out. Haunted by what appear to be his bizarre night-time actions - did he really cut his own foot with a knife? - Drew is shocked when another woman is discovered dead, murdered in the same way as Genevieve. Trying to clear his name and understand what's happening to him, Drew enlists the help of a tame forensic scientist, a sympathetic detective, his staunch friend Chic who has helpful underworld connections, and an over-confident teenager. Can Drew discover what really happened that night and unmask the real killer? A crime writer finds himself entangled in his own gruesome mystery. In this fast-paced psychological thriller Drew Danner, a crime novelist with a house off L.A.'s storied Mulholland Drive, awakens in a hospital bed with a scar on his head and no memory of being found convulsing over his ex- fiancée's body the previous night. He was discovered holding a knife, her blood beneath his nails. He himself doesn't know whether he's guilty or innocent. To reconstruct the story, the writer must now become the protagonist, searching the corridors of his life and the city he loves. Soon Drew closes in on clues he may or may not have left for himself, and as another young woman is similarly murdered he has to ask difficult questions not of others but of himself A Pulse-pounding Bestseller From The Author Of Orphan X. I Know You, Don't I?' Five Words - That's All It Takes To Plunge Mike Wingate And His Family Into Mortal Danger. Mike Doesn't Recognise The Crippled Stranger Who Approaches Him At A Party . . . But The Stranger Seems To Know All About Him. What Has Mike Done? Do They Have The Wrong Man? Overnight, The Threats Become Attacks, And Mike, His Wife, And Their Young Daughter Learn They Aren't Safe Anywhere -especially Not Their Own Home. He Doesn't Know Who They Are. He Doesn't Know What They Want. But There's No Time To Figure It Out - Because His Enemies Have Killed Before, And He's Next. I know you, do not I? Five words that is all it takes to plunge Mike Wingate and his family into mortal danger. Mike does not recognise the crippled stranger who approaches him at a party ... but the stranger seems to know all about him. What has Mike done? Do they have the wrong man? A gripping new thriller that asks: how can you prove yourself innocent when your own mind is playing tricks on you?