It may sound crazy, but Audie Palmer's escape, the day before her release, and after ten years in the shadows, has a well-justified cause.
While he was imprisoned, everyone approached him with better or worse intentions to find out the whereabouts of the 7 million loot for which he ended up behind bars. Once on the street, their pursuit will become stark and dangerous.
Haunted by money, none of his various pursuers will go beyond the doubt generated by his escape. Why escape the day before being released? Everyone wants to know where the money is and they sense that Audie is about to get it back.
But the reader has more clues, he is guided by more complete approaches, he advances through a plot where the doubt acquires a very different tinge from that of the flight and the simple search for the loot. Something else moves the fugitive, motives shared exclusively with the surprised reader, who will advance in the plot at the frenetic pace of the persecution and the ruthless passage of time, his most implacable persecutor.
Audie is not looking for money, she seeks to arrive on time to avoid a tragedy. How did you know what could happen? What really prompted you to get out of jail 24 hours before your release letter?
Those 24 hours are much more important than it seems. Michael needs time to save a life, and he will do everything he can so that no one can stop him. As for the loot, it is probably the least ...
Audie preserves the biggest unconfessed secrets until the end of the book, where the reader and some of his pursuers come to understand the magnitude of the events. 10 years in jail, between harassment and mistreatment they have been able to change Audie, for better or for worse.
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