Jeffery Deaver: A Maiden's Grave (UK 2016)

From the Publisher:
The ultimate thriller writer's first large-scale, ticking clock standalone thriller. An escaped convict takes hostage a bus of deaf children. He will kill one an hour...

DEAVER. DANGEROUSLY GOOD.

When a trio of desperate convicts hijack a bus carrying a group of deaf and mute schoolgirls, everyone is braced for a terrible tragedy.

FBI agent Arthur Potter is flown in to negotiate. But he has competition: local police, state troopers, politicians and the media are swarming. Not everyone has the same agenda.

And the killers will murder one innocent child an hour, on the hour, until their demands are met...

Jeffery Deaver: A Maiden's Grave. Hodder Paperbacks, ISBN: 9781473631953 (November, 2016), 489 p., £8.99.

Jeffery Deaver: A Maiden's Grave (USA 2014)

From the Publisher:
Along a windswept Kansas road, eight vulnerable girls and their helpless teachers are forced off a school bus and held hostage in an abandoned slaughterhouse. The madman who has them at gunpoint has a simple plan: One hostage an hour will die unless the demands are met.

Called to the scene is Arthur Potter, the FBI's best hostage negotiator. He has a plan. But so does one of the hostages -- a beautiful teacher who's willing to do anything to save the lives of her students. Now the clock is ticking as a chilling game of cat and mouse begins.

Jeffery Deaver: A Maiden's Grave. NAL, ISBN: 9780451466297 (February, 2014), 444 p., $15.00.

Jeffery Deaver: A Maiden's Grave (USA 2001)

From the Publisher:
Eight vulnerable girls and their helpless teachers are forced off a school bus and held hostage. The madman who has them at gunpoint has a simple plan: one hostage an hour will die unless the demands are met. Called to the scene is Arthur Potter, the FBI's best hostage negotiator. He has a plan. But so does one of the hostages-a beautiful teacher who's willing to do anything to save the lives of her students. Now, the clock is ticking as a chilling game of cat and mouse begins.

Jeffery Deaver: A Maiden's Grave. Signet, ISBN: 0451204298 (September, 2001), 419 p., $7.99.

Jeffery Deaver: A Maiden's Grave (UK 1996)

From the Publisher:
The ultimate thriller writer's first large-scale, ticking clock standalone thriller. An escaped convict takes hostage a bus of deaf children. He will kill one an hour...

A trio of desperate convicts has hijacked a bus carrying a group of deaf and mute schoolgirls who are now being held hostage in a disused slaughterhouse. FBI agent Arthur Potter is flown in to negotiate with the men, as are local police, state troopers, politicians and the media. Not everyone has the same agenda. And the killers will kill one innocent child an hour, on the hour, until their demands are met.

Jeffery Deaver: A Maiden's Grave. Coronet, ISBN: 0340653752 (September, 1996), 422 p., £5.99.