Night Blind
Published on 23. October 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
420 pages
978-1-61218-418-0 (ISBN)
Description
International Thriller Award Nominee
In the space of a few months, Blake Sanders has lost his job, his only son to suicide, and his marriage. A year later, it's gotten so bad that he can only face the world at night, working menial jobs washing dishes and delivering newspapers, lost in depression and grief.
Blake's world is turned upside down again on a cold November night, when an elderly woman on his newspaper route is brutally stabbed to death and Blake is charged with her murder. Faced with life in prison, his only hope is to find the real killer.
In a desperate attempt to unravel the mystery, Blake learns that his friend had stumbled onto secrets that have been buried beneath Capitol Hill for 150 years. Secrets that are now being disturbed by the construction of the new light rail tunnel. Secrets that will shake the government of Seattle. Secrets that foreign agents will kill for.
On the run from the police and murderers, Blake finds a chance to heal his grief and reclaim his life-if he can stay alive long enough to unearth the truth.
In the space of a few months, Blake Sanders has lost his job, his only son to suicide, and his marriage. A year later, it's gotten so bad that he can only face the world at night, working menial jobs washing dishes and delivering newspapers, lost in depression and grief.
Blake's world is turned upside down again on a cold November night, when an elderly woman on his newspaper route is brutally stabbed to death and Blake is charged with her murder. Faced with life in prison, his only hope is to find the real killer.
In a desperate attempt to unravel the mystery, Blake learns that his friend had stumbled onto secrets that have been buried beneath Capitol Hill for 150 years. Secrets that are now being disturbed by the construction of the new light rail tunnel. Secrets that will shake the government of Seattle. Secrets that foreign agents will kill for.
On the run from the police and murderers, Blake finds a chance to heal his grief and reclaim his life-if he can stay alive long enough to unearth the truth.
Reviews / Votes
"Night Blind is a study in contrasts-both a complex international thriller and a tightly woven wrongfully accused mystery, with storylines that crackle with intensity before they collide in a shower of sparks. Michael Sherer has crafted an original and compelling character in Blake Sanders. Pay attention. You won't want to miss a word." -J.T. Ellison, bestselling author of A Deeper Darkness"Sherer's Night Blind is the type of story I crave-a deep mystery wrapped in an impossible to put down thriller. This is a novel that will keep you up late, and force you out of bed early to start reading again. Loved every page of it." -Brett Battles, author of Sick and the Jonathan Quinn Thrillers
"In an ingenious, byzantine tale, Michael Sherer has woven multiple threads through history and across continents to link a long-hidden secret to a modern-day murder. Deftly written and enthralling, Night Blind succeeds both as a thriller with international scope and as a profoundly personal tale of a man who's been knocked down more times than he can count but gets right back up again. Sherer masterfully navigates dizzying plot twists and his characters' frailties with the perfect balance of grit and humanity. Night Blind, is a story in which the layers have layers, rich, complex, and deeply satisfying." -Bill Cameron, author of County Line
"Night Blind is a tense, twisty thriller about a wrongfully accused man seeking to clear his name and finding himself in the middle of a gripping mystery with deadly consequences. A tightly paced page-turner that's impossible to put down. Terrific!" -Allison Brennan, New York Times bestselling author
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Seattle
United States
Publishing group
Amazon Publishing
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
ISBN-13
978-1-61218-418-0 (9781612184180)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Michael W. Sherer grew up on a farm in northern Illinois, went to prep school and college "back east," and lived in Chicago for twenty years. After stints as a manual laborer, dishwasher, bartender, restaurant manager, commercial photographer, magazine editor, and public relations executive, Sherer decided life should imitate art and became a novelist. He is a member of International Thriller Writers, Mystery Writers of America, and the Authors Guild. In addition to Night Blind, the first thriller in the Blake Sanders series, he has published six novels in the Emerson Ward mystery series, including An Option On Death, Little Use For Death, Death Came Dressed In White, A Forever Death, Death Is No Bargain, and Death On A Budget, as well as a stand-alone suspense novel, Island Life. He's now hard at work on his fourth Blake Sanders thriller and a new young adult thriller, Blind Rage. He and his wife and the youngest of their four children now live in the Seattle suburbs.