The Lock Artist

Resumen del libro

Michael hit the headlines once before, a seven-year-old kid the papers called The Miracle Boy on account of how he survived the terrible incident that took his parents. But although his escape was miraculous, it left him unable to speak. Taunted as a freak, school becomes a fresh nightmare, until Michael discovers he has a special talent that makes people sit up and take notice: he can open locks.
But a teenage prank, breaking into the house of a rival school's quarterback, lands him in hot water, and despite his best intentions, Michael soon finds himself on a downward slope that ends with expert instruction on how to open safes. And unless he agrees to put his newfound skills to use, the mob are going to kill the father of the girl he now loves.
So begins an extraordinary life of crime - at once terrifying and exhilarating - while all the while, Michael plots how to turn the tables on his employer, win back Amelia, and find the key to unlocking his traumatic childhood memories.

Biografía del autor

STEVE HAMILTON (Detroit, 1961) es uno de los autores de thrillers más aclamados de los últimos años. Todas sus novelas son éxitos de ventas y han sido reconocidas con premios literarios o bien han quedado finalistas de estos. Licenciado en la Universidad de Michigan, trabajaba en IBM cuando decidió escribir su primer libro por las noches, Sangre bajo cero (1998), que obtuvo el Edgar Award y el Shamus Award al mejor debut literario. Esa fue la primera novela de la serie protagonizada por el detective Alex McKnight. Plan de fuga es la segunda entrega de la serie iniciada con su aplaudida La segunda vida de Nick Mason, publicada también por RBA.