Elevator pitch a novel
(Playaway)

1 AAA battery and headphones required for use, but not supplied by library.

In container (19 X 14 x 3 cm.).

"LIGHT."

"HDAUDIO."

Title from container.

"Harper Audio."

Previously released by HarperCollins Publishers, ℗2019.

Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player.

Read by Johnathan McClain.

"It all begins on a Monday, when four people board an elevator in a Manhattan office tower. Each presses a button for their floor, but the elevator proceeds, nonstop, to the top. Once there, it pauses for a few seconds, but the doors don't open. Instead, the elevator begins to descend floor by floor. Then it plummets. Right to the bottom of the shaft. It appears to be a random accident, the kind of thing that seems to happen all too often in a city like New York: crane collapse, subway fire . . . elevator malfunction. But on Tuesday, it happens again, in a different Manhattan skyscraper. And then Wednesday brings yet another tragic high-rise catastrophe. In only three days, 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 people who work in high-rises across the city refuse to leave their homes. Commerce has slowed to a trickle. Emergency calls to the top floors of apartment towers go unanswered. The mayor, already embroiled in a growing scandal, is desperate for answers. Who is behind this? Why are they doing it? Are these deadly acts of sabotage somehow connected to a fingerless body found on the High Line? Two seasoned New York detectives and a straight-shooting journalist race against time to uncover the truth before the city's newest, and tallest, residential tower has its ribbon-cutting on Friday night."--,Provided by publisher.

cc,2019-10-19,JD