Killer Weekend        Cut and Run        Diary of Ellen Rimbauer        Parallel Lies        Chain of Evidence        Hard Fall        Probable Cause        Seizing of Yankee Green        Blood of the Albatross        Never Look Back

"Pearson writes clear prose, epic in scope and strongly cinematic, cross-cutting from event to event in short, pithy chapters...." * Read the first chapter Read reviews... THE SEIZING OF YANKEE GREEN MALL (title changed to HIDDEN CHARGES in paperback) (paperback) With the richness and vitality of books like Airport and Hotel, and with the high-pressure excitement of books like Black Sunday and The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3, Ridley Pearson's The Seizing of Yankee Green Mall is the novel we have been waiting for from this critically acclaimed young thriller writer. It is a novel of intense dramatic power that brings the unthinkable into every American's backyard. The setting is The Yankee Green - an enormous shopping center/ entertainment mall located in a suburb of Boston. The mall is a self-sufficient, environmentally controlled, electronically secure indoor city; tens of thousands of people pass through its five pavilions every day. The children play in the indoor amusement park; the young professionals work out in the state-of-the-art health club and jog on the atrium's overhead running track; the elderly walk the promenades, sit on benches, chat under the fountains and in the manicured gardens. But the labyrinth of service halls that are weaved into the superstructure lurks a demon: a madman with a grudge, whose plan is to hold five thousand people hostage inside a pavilion he wired to explode. This book is a kaleidoscope of plot and character that spins in deliciously complex tale of greed, power, and passion, and explodes into a breathtaking rocker of a thriller in which one ordinary man must reach to the core of his fortitude and wit in a passionate struggle to save himself, the hostages, and the woman he loves. Buy the book from an independent bookstore or Amazon. * Publishers Weekly