The Desperate Hours/The Goat Boy/My Brother's Keeper/Two Soliders/The Young Elizabeth [antikvár]

hen Eleanor Hilliard answeredthe doorbell on that quiet autumn after-noon, she never suspected who the shyyoung man outside could be. She neverguessed that the next three days would befilled with terror and uncertainty for her-self, for Dan, her husband, and for Cindyand Ralphie, their two children.Deputy Sheriff Jesse Webb knew fromexperience what that ringing doorbellcould mean. He wanted to help, to end theHilliards' nightmare, but he had no way ofknowing that their house had been chosen.The Desperate Hours is a novel of ex-traordinary suspense. What happened tothe Hilliards could happen to any of us.What would you have done in their place?"A first-class situation, brilliantlyhandled."John Raymond in the New Statesman"A really excellent piece of work, bothhair-raising and psychologically convinc-ing."John Davenport in The ObserverCHAPTER 1pri hey emerged from the woods a few minutes after dawn, acold, moist dawn with a mist billowing up from the fields.There were three of them, their uniforms blending with theyellowing autumn green. They paused only briefly, scanning thedeserted highway that lay flat across the flat Mid-Western country.At a signal from onethe tall, lean, young-looking man whowalked slightly ahead of the other two, with his head tilted andhis shoulders lifted at a defiant and slightly triumphant anglethey proceeded swiftly, but not running, behind a screen of treesand underbrush, in a line parallel to the highway. In a very shorttime, and before anyone else appeared on the road, they reacheda farm. In the barn yard, one detached himself from the others,moving quickly, a small young man, even younger than the tallone but without the other's jaunty manner, and began to work onthe wires under the bonnet of the late-model, grey-coloured sedanparked there. The other two moved swiftly but with stealthtowards the barn. Inside, they came upon a middle-aged farmer,