The Five-Day Nightmare

The clock is ticking as a husband frantically tries to save his abducted wife in this fast-paced crime novel by "a real pro" (The New York Times Book Review).

Twenty-five grand if he wants his wife back alive. That's the demand on the ransom note Lloyd Johnson found sitting in his typewriter. It has to be in unmarked bills—and it has to be delivered in five days.

To make it worse, the kidnapper dropped the names of his previous victims—one who'd made it back home to her husband, and on...