Crosscut
On sale
30th January 2006
Price: £8.99
For Evan, China Lake was a tough place to grow up. But she didn’t realise just how tough until, returning to the desert military base for her high school reunion, she discovers that a disturbing number of her classmates have died young. The morning after the reunion another is found, savagely butchered. She is just the first. Someone in China Lake has a major axe to grind with the class of ’91. And that includes Evan . . .
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Reviews
A rattling good read, with an unexpected twist at the end.
With a colourful cast of richly delineated characters, a protagonist with whom the readers will easily identify - all big-hearted, quick-tongued and hair-trigger-tempered - this novel provides a fast-paced ride through some of the more dubious nooks and crannies of the American dream.
From beginning to end CHINA LAKE is a book that no reader of thrillers will be able to put down. Great characters, dynamic plot, nail-biting action - Meg Gardiner gives us everything.
Rough, tough and uncomprimising, China Lake targets harder than a Sidewinder missile.
a tense and exciting thriller where almost everything seems possible. A conspiricy theorist's must have