The Midnight Ride
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3.7 • 42 Ratings
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
From the celebrated, New York Times bestselling author comes the twisted thriller of an MIT grad student who unwittingly uncovers the hidden connection between the Gardner Museum heist and the most fascinating secret in American history.
THE CARD SHARK: Hailey Gordon is looking to make some fast cash to help pay her tuition when she’s caught counting cards at the Encore casino in Boston. She grabs her winnings and makes her escape. With guards closing in, she dives into an unlocked room to hide . . . only to find a dead body.
THE EX-CON: Recently released from prison, Nick Patterson hasn’t felt hope in a long time, but the job he “inherited” in prison promises to change that. He enters hotel room 633 to find that the person he was supposed to meet has been murdered. Next to the corpse stands a terrified young woman—Hailey Gordon.
THE PROFESSOR: American history professor Adrian Jensen learns of the death of his professional nemesis, Charles Walker, the night after he received Walker’s latest research. Skeptical at first, Adrian nearly deletes the file. But when one small, new detail catches his eye, he makes it his mission to uncover what could be one of the biggest secrets of the Revolutionary War.
All three strangers find themselves on the cusp of an incredible discovery—one that someone is willing to kill to keep buried.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The suspenseful opening of this uneven thriller from bestseller Mezrich (Seven Wonders) finds a mysterious young woman, MIT applied math PhD student Hailey Gordon, in a Boston casino, where she's card-counting in hopes of winning enough at blackjack to help pay her tuition and rent bills. But once security notices what she's doing, Hailey flees into the adjoining hotel, where she hides in a room in which she stumbles on a man with a bullet hole in his head. Moments later, ex-con Nick Patterson enters the room. Nick was hoping to meet a fence there about a lead he recently came across to the 30-year-old unsolved theft of multimillion-dollar paintings from the Gardner Art Museum. The pair end up allying with Prof. Adrian Jensen, an expert on Paul Revere, who has obtained a copy of a paper from a colleague purporting to announce a world-changing discovery. Mezrich doesn't flesh out his characters, and the reveal about the professor's discovery doesn't pass the giggle test. With any luck, the intriguing Hailey will return in a sequel with a more convincing plot.
