The Seizing of Yankee Green Mall Ridley Pearson

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The Seizing of Yankee Green MallRidley Pearson First Edition Signed Hardcover358 pages Publisher: St Martins Pr1987Language: English ISBN-10: 0312007035 A carefully read signed first edition with fine dust jacket in Mylar jacket Several Ridley Pearson signed first editions are available in my storesearch under "signed first editions"(later republished as Hidden Charges)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 read more