Ridley Pearson: Hidden Charges (USA 2020)

From the Publisher:
New York Times-bestselling author: This thriller about a suburban mall taken hostage by a madman offers "sheer edge-of-your-chair excitement" (Wilmington News-Journal).

The setting is The Yankee Green -- an enormous shopping center and entertainment mall located in a suburb of Boston. A self-sufficient, environmentally controlled, electronically secure indoor city, The Yankee Green has tens of thousands of people pass through its five pavilions every day. The children play in the indoor amusement park; 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 in the labyrinth of service halls that are weaved into the superstructure lurks a demon, a madman with a grudge who plans to hold five thousand people hostage with hidden explosives...

Ridley Pearson: Hidden Charges. Rosetta Books, ISBN: 9780795340116 (October, 2020), eBook, 2 MB (ca. 372 p.), $1.99.

Ridley Pearson: Hidden Charges (USA 1993)

From the Publisher:
It's the boldest, most satisfying Ridley Pearson novel ever -- the one that confirms his status as today's most powerful thriller writer!
No one writes heartpounding suspense like Ridley Pearson. In Undercurrents, his taut, edge-of-the-seat plotting gripped you from the start and didn't release you until the sharp, thrilling conclusion. In Probable Cause, he brought you to a whole new level of hard-edged excitement. Now he turns it up another notch, in Hidden Charges.

In this "complex tale of greed, power and passion" (Indianapolis News), a shopper's paradise becomes a city under siege held hostage by a madman armed with the skills and the weapons of a trained soldier, and possessed with an uncontrollable lust for vengeance, destruction... and death.

Ridley Pearson: Hidden Charges. St. Marin's Press, ISBN: 0312929595 (May, 1993), 384 p., $5.99.

Ridley Pearson: The Seizing of Yankee Green Mall (USA 1987)

From the Publisher:
With the richness and vitality of books like Airport and Hotel and with the high-pressure escitement 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 the benches, chat under the fountains and in the manicured gardens. But in 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 has wired to explode.

This book is a kaleidoscope of plot and character that spins a 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.

Ridley Pearson: The Seizing of Yankee Green Mall. St. Marin's Press, ISBN: 0312007035 (July, 1987), 384 p., $18.95.