Panic (novel)
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Panic is a 2005 thriller by Jeff Abbott
about an unsuspecting young documentary film maker, Evan, whose life is turned upside down when he realizes that his parents have been working as spies throughout their lives. One morning his mother phones him and asks him to come to her urgently, but when he arrives at her home she has just been murdered. She is suspected by other spies of having compiled a list containing the names of clients, but it cannot be found anywhere. This is why a group of her former "colleagues" thinks she must somehow have passed on the list to her son.
Evan must struggle through his mother's death and meets FBI agents, cold-hearted killers, and double-crossers, and friends- trying to find his father, get his revenge on the people who murdered his mother, and uncover all the secrets about the lie he believed was his life.
Panic is due to be made in to a film in 2011.
described the book as an "absorbing thriller" that is "a fast, furious and fun read". Oline Cogdill of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel said that Abbott takes the novel "just to the boundaries of disbelief", but still manages to make it "credible" and "still a shocker".
Jeff Abbott
Jeff Abbott is a U.S. suspense novelist. He has a degree in History and English from Rice University. He lives in Austin, Texas. His early novels were traditional detective fiction but in recent years he has turned to writing thriller fiction. A theme of his work is the idea of ordinary people...
about an unsuspecting young documentary film maker, Evan, whose life is turned upside down when he realizes that his parents have been working as spies throughout their lives. One morning his mother phones him and asks him to come to her urgently, but when he arrives at her home she has just been murdered. She is suspected by other spies of having compiled a list containing the names of clients, but it cannot be found anywhere. This is why a group of her former "colleagues" thinks she must somehow have passed on the list to her son.
Evan must struggle through his mother's death and meets FBI agents, cold-hearted killers, and double-crossers, and friends- trying to find his father, get his revenge on the people who murdered his mother, and uncover all the secrets about the lie he believed was his life.
Panic is due to be made in to a film in 2011.
Critical reception
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described the book as an "absorbing thriller" that is "a fast, furious and fun read". Oline Cogdill of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel said that Abbott takes the novel "just to the boundaries of disbelief", but still manages to make it "credible" and "still a shocker".