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Think of a Number
  • Published: 27 June 2011
  • ISBN: 9780141048703
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 512
  • RRP: $36.99

Think of a Number

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31 May 2010
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27 June 2011
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Twin Peaks meets Tell No One in the mindblowing thriller that is set to become one of the most talked about publishing events of 2010

It begins with a letter . . . The letter contains a request - think of a number, any number - and a sealed envelope. Inside the envelope is that number.

When Dave Gurney, retired NYPD homicide detective, is contacted by an old college acquaintance about some startling letters he's been receiving, it is at first little more than a diverting but sinister puzzle. Until the acquaintance is brutally killed.

Suddenly Gurney finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation that makes no sense. The killer seems to have known his victim intimately. How else was he able to predict his victim's thoughts, even his actions? How did he know his darkest secrets?

The killer is smart and he is playing with the police. Gurney needs to be smarter if he's going to catch him, but this seems only to be the beginning. And the killer alone knows where it will end.
  • Published: 27 June 2011
  • ISBN: 9780141048703
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 512
  • RRP: $36.99
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About the author

John Verdon

JOHN VERDON is the author of the Dave Gurney series of thrillers, international bestsellers published in more than two dozen languages: Think of a Number, Shut Your Eyes Tight, Let the Devil Sleep, Peter Pan Must Die, Wolf Lake, White River Burning, and On Harrow Hill. Before becoming a crime fiction writer, Verdon had two previous careers: as an advertising creative director and a custom furniture maker. He currently lives with his wife, Naomi, in the rural mountains of upstate New York―raising chickens, tending the garden, mowing the fields, and devising the intricate plots of the Gurney novels.
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Also by John Verdon

The Viper
On Harrow Hill
White River Burning
Wolf Lake
Let the Devil Sleep
Shut Your Eyes Tight
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Praise for Think of a Number

Written with pace, style, intelligence, teasing puzzles and lots of tension.The number I'm thinking of is 1!

Reginald Hill

Addictive and thoroughly engrossing . . . this tale will grab hold of you like a steel jaw trap

Joseph Finder

Spectacular and mind-bending . . . the best thriller I've read in a long, long time. John Verdon's writing is so polished, so nuanced, it makes me envious that I didn't write this terrific novel

Tess Gerritsen

John Verdon has written a flawless novel about flawed people and he's written it beautifully

Nelson DeMille

With its edge-of-the-chair suspense, memorable characters that jump off the pages, and elegant and deft writing, John Verdon's Think of a Number is a stunning debut

Faye Kellerman

One of the finest thrillers I've read in years. I devoured it. In a genre frequently and sadly known for delivering more of the same old familiar stuff, Think of a Number stands out as original and exciting

John Katzenbach

Simply one of the best thrillers I've read in a lifetime of thriller reading - eloquent, heart-rending, deeply suspenseful on many levels, and relentlessly intelligent. Absolutely not to be missed!

John Lescroart