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The Distance

A Thriller

A Thriller

By Helen Giltrow

By Helen Giltrow

By Helen Giltrow

By Helen Giltrow

By Helen Giltrow
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By Helen Giltrow
Read by Rachel Atkins

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Jul 07, 2015 | ISBN 9780345804358

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Sep 09, 2014 | ISBN 9780385537001

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Sep 09, 2014 | 808 Minutes

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    About The Distance

    Charlotte Alton is an elegant London socialite. But behind the locked doors of her sleek, fortified apartment, she becomes Karla, a fixer who specializes in creating and erasing identities, and can cover any criminal’s tracks. Only a few people in the world know her secret.
     
    One of them is Simon Johanssen, a killer-for-hire who resurfaces—years after she helped him to quietly disappear—with an impossible job. He needs access to a high-security, experimental prison colony in order to assassinate an inmate. The catch: there’s no record of the target’s existence, and what’s worse, the criminal boss from whom he’s been hiding is inside, too. The trap has been set, but who is the real target—Johanssen or Karla herself?

    About The Distance

    A dark, ultra-contemporary, and relentlessly paced debut thriller about a London society woman trying to put her secret criminal past behind her, and the hit man who comes to her with an impossible job she can’t refuse.

    Charlotte Alton is an elegant socialite. But behind the locked doors of her sleek, high-security apartment in London’s Docklands, she becomes Karla. Karla’s business is information. Specifically, making it disappear. She’s the unseen figure who, for a commanding price, will cover a criminal’s tracks. A perfectionist, she’s only made one slip in her career—several years ago she revealed her face to a man named Simon Johanssen, an ex-special forces sniper turned killer-for-hire. After a mob hit went horrifically wrong, Johanssen needed to disappear, and Karla helped him. He became a regular client, and then, one day, she stepped out of the shadows for reasons unclear to even herself. Now, after a long absence, Johanssen has resurfaced with a job, and he needs Karla’s help again. The job is to take out an inmate—a woman—inside an experimental prison colony. But there’s no record the target ever existed. That’s not the only problem: the criminal boss from whom Johanssen has been hiding is incarcerated there. That doesn’t stop him. It’s Karla’s job to get him out alive, and to do that she must uncover the truth. Who is this woman? Who wants her dead? Is the job a trap for Johanssen or for her? But every door she opens is a false one, and she’s getting desperate to protect a man—a killer—to whom she’s inexplicably drawn. Written in stylish, sophisticated prose, The Distance is a tense and satisfying debut in which every character, both criminal and law-abiding, wears two faces, and everyone is playing a double game.

    About The Distance

    A dark, ultra-contemporary, and relentlessly paced debut thriller about a London society woman trying to put her secret criminal past behind her, and the hit man who comes to her with an impossible job she can’t refuse.

    Charlotte Alton is an elegant socialite. But behind the locked doors of her sleek, high-security apartment in London’s Docklands, she becomes Karla. Karla’s business is information. Specifically, making it disappear. She’s the unseen figure who, for a commanding price, will cover a criminal’s tracks. A perfectionist, she’s only made one slip in her career—several years ago she revealed her face to a man named Simon Johanssen, an ex-special forces sniper turned killer-for-hire. After a mob hit went horrifically wrong, Johanssen needed to disappear, and Karla helped him. He became a regular client, and then, one day, she stepped out of the shadows for reasons unclear to even herself. Now, after a long absence, Johanssen has resurfaced with a job, and he needs Karla’s help again. The job is to take out an inmate—a woman—inside an experimental prison colony. But there’s no record the target ever existed. That’s not the only problem: the criminal boss from whom Johanssen has been hiding is incarcerated there. That doesn’t stop him. It’s Karla’s job to get him out alive, and to do that she must uncover the truth. Who is this woman? Who wants her dead? Is the job a trap for Johanssen or for her? But every door she opens is a false one, and she’s getting desperate to protect a man—a killer—to whom she’s inexplicably drawn. Written in stylish, sophisticated prose, The Distance is a tense and satisfying debut in which every character, both criminal and law-abiding, wears two faces, and everyone is playing a double game.

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    About Helen Giltrow

    Helen Giltrow is a former bookseller and freelance editor whose writing has been shortlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association Debut Dagger Award and the Daily Telegraph’s Novel in a Year Competition in the United Kingdom. She lives in Oxford, England.

    About Helen Giltrow

    Helen Giltrow is a former bookseller and freelance editor whose writing has been shortlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association Debut Dagger Award and the Daily Telegraph’s Novel in a Year Competition in the United Kingdom. She lives in Oxford, England.

    About Helen Giltrow

    Helen Giltrow is a former bookseller and freelance editor whose writing has been shortlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association Debut Dagger Award and the Daily Telegraph’s Novel in a Year Competition in the United Kingdom. She lives in Oxford, England.

    Product Details

    Category: Suspense & Thriller

    Paperback | $16.95
    Published by Anchor
    Jul 07, 2015 | 368 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780345804358

    Category: Suspense & Thriller

    Ebook | $5.99
    Published by Anchor
    Sep 09, 2014 | 368 Pages | ISBN 9780385537001

    Category: Suspense & Thriller | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $22.50
    Published by Random House Audio
    Sep 09, 2014 | 808 Minutes | ISBN 9780553399769

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    Praise

    “Fast, hard, and very, very good.”
         —Lee Child, internationally bestselling author of the Jack Reacher thrillers

    “This page-turning novel gives the term thriller a good name. . . . While I was reading it I frequently had to remind myself to breathe.”
         —Nancy Pearl, NPR Books

    “Satisfyingly high-concept. . . . A hair-raising expedition into a dark world of layered duplicities, captured with stylish prose and a breakneck pace.”
        —Chris Pavone, New York Times bestselling author of The Expats and The Accident

    “A riveting debut.” —Publishers Weekly 

    “A truly unusual thriller. . . . Original and thought-provoking.” —The Sunday Mirror (UK)

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