Elevator Pitch

Author/Guide: Linwood Barclay

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2000s: Careful when you get the elevator in New York City..

ISBN: 978-0008331993
Genre: Thriller

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What you need to know before your trail

It appears to be a horrific, random tragedy. But then, on Tuesday, it happens again, in a different Manhattan skyscraper. And when Wednesday brings yet another high-rise catastrophe, one of the most vertical cities in the world – and the nation’s capital of media, finance, and entertainment – is plunged into chaos.

Clearly, this is anything but random. This is a cold, calculated bid to terrorize the city. And it’s working. Fearing for their lives, thousands of men and women working in offices across the city refuse leave their homes. Commerce has slowed to a trickle. Emergency calls to the top floors of apartment buildings go unanswered.

Who is behind this? What do these deadly acts of sabotage have to do with the fingerless body found on the High Line? Two seasoned New York detectives and a straight-shooting journalist must race against time to find the answers . .

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Travel around NYC BookTrail style with Elevator Pitch

You wander around New York and there are hundreds of tall skyscrapers with offices inside them. You can imagine the lifts/elevators going up and down each one every day taking workers to offices and then home again. But what happens if you get stuck inside one? What happens if one suddenly fails with you inside it and it plummets to the ground?

That’s the premise here and it’s a scary one. New York is a backdrop as the lift/elevator is the main setting but the city of New York, it’s City Hall, subway lines and street corners plays a nice part. This is a big, metropolis, anonymous and unfriendly. What does go on in this tower blocks?

Danger lies on every corner and within the smallest places the city has to offer…..dark, tin boxes….

“New York it was pointed out, had 39 inspectors to check on some seventy thousand of them.”

Booktrailer Review

Oh my word. I’ve met Linwood Barclay he’s a lovely guy. I’ve even been in a lift with him and a few people at an event. That’s ALL I could think about when reading this book! Was he plotting it then? HAHA Oh dear goodness. I am never get in a lift with him again after this!

Writers will be aware of what an Elevator Pitch is – a couple of seconds to sell your novel idea to an literary agent. Well, agents beware after this! There are some inventive ways to get someone’s attention in a lift, press the buttons to miss the floor and get stuck….

Tell you what, if you don’t like elevators or small spaces in any way and can’t even go on a fairground ride that ressembles one, then take care when reading this. I felt every shudder and close of the doors, and the small confined space. Then you learn about the number of elevators in New York where the book is set, how many engineers there are and what the chances of accidents are….. I took the stairs everywhere I went for ages after reading all this!

When I’d recovered from the first few chapters, the story drew me in to apolitical thriller with the mayor of New York in the middle of some serious funny business. A battle with the press and then the blame game. It’s an interesting way of looking at political wranglings and what happens when things go wrong.

The novel is all about fear, fear of the everyday, the unknown, the secrets goings on in government and power and then there’s the bits that totally shock you as you realise you are scared of them , but you didn’t realise it.

Mr Barclay – this book is going to let people shed some pounds with all the stairs they’ll be taking from now on! Read in an open field away from buildings of more than one floor 😉