This remains one of my all-time favorite books of fiction. You will not be able to put it down....a real page turner!


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This was the first book by Baldacci that I read, and it still remains my favorite! I read half of the book in one sitting, and could think of nothing else until I was able to finish it. It sucks you in from the first chapter, and doesn't let go until the end.

Fabulous story! I really got caught up in it - and it could happen!
I highly recommend this book :)

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This deliciously entertaining thriller has all the right ingredients: suspense, a strange but brilliant villain and a woman lifted out of poverty into privilegeÐbut with a price. LuAnn Tyler is smart, beautiful, but desperately poor, working as a waitress and living with an abusive boyfriend and her greatly loved infant daughter. When a stranger offers her the chance to win millions of dollars in the national lottery, LuAnn's new life, which will ultimately lead her into danger as great as her wealth, begins. Frances Cassidy's narration is rich, sultry and powerful. Through degree of accent and inflection, she conveys the very different person LuAnn becomes, thanks to education and travel. Cassidy also perfectly captures both the streetwise Charlie (LuAnn's friend and companion) and the menacing Mr. Jackson. The suspenseful conclusion keeps the listener breathless, thanks to Baldacci's plotting and Cassidy's pacing and flawless emotional pitch.

David Baldacci keeps you wanting to turn the page. An exciting and enticing story about a woman, a $100 million lottery fix and murder.

I could see this being made into a movie. Good story and exciting conclusion.

Fast-paced thriller that you can't put down!

What would you do if you were guaranteed to win the lottery? Don't be to quick to answer. Very enjoyable.

This was the first David Baldacci book I read and I LOVED it! I couldn't put it down.

LuAnne Tyler is a twenty-year-old unwed mother in Rikersville, Georgia, a woman who can use her fists as well as her wits, a woman striving to escape an abusive relationship and a life of endless poverty. Suddenly, under the pretense of giving her a decent job, a mysterious Mr Jackson makes her an offer he thinks no one can refuse; a guarantee to be the next winner of the $100 million national lottery.
But LuAnne won't do it. At first. Then, less than twenty-four hours later, she is fighting for her life and running froma false murder charge. Jackson's offer--and its condition that she leave the country forever--seems to be her oly hope. She accepts his proposition and the new life the unlimited wealth buys her and her infant daughter. Ten years later, LuAnne disobeys Jackson and secretly returns to the United States, where she is still wanted for murder.
There she meets Matthew Riggs, a man whose origins are as murky and troublesome as her own. LuAnn's life is shattered when a canny reporter smelling a scam in the national lottery picks up her trail, and Jackson, a seemingly omniscient master of impersonation, comes to punish her for disobeying him. At the same time, the FBI is set on her track when investigators suspect someone may have fixed the lottery. While the hunters close in for the kill, LuAnn finds herself turning to Matt Riggs for help, but he may be just another predator in her life.

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