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The winner by Baldacci, David is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The winner about?
From Library Journal Absolute Power. Total Control. And now The Winner: Baldacci doesn't settle for second best. Here, his heroine, who gets rich after being forced to participate in a fixed lottery, is wanted for murder. Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Kirkus Reviews Irritatingly trite woman-in-periler from lawyer-turned-novelist Baldacci. Moving away from the White House and the white-shoe Washington law firms of his previous bestsellers (Absolute Power, 1996; Total Control, 1997), Baldacci comes up with LuAnn Tyler, a spunky, impossibly beautiful, white-trash truck stop waitress with a no-good husband and a terminally cute infant daughter in tow. Some months after the birth of Lisa, LuAnn gets a phone call summoning her to a make-shift office in an unrented storefront of the local shopping mall. There, she gets a Faustian offer from a Mr. Jackson, a monomaniacal, cross-dressing manipulator who apparently knows the winning numbers in the national lottery before the numbers are drawn. It seems that LuAnn fits the media profile of what a lottery winner should be--poor, undereducated but proud--and if she's willing to buy the right ticket at the right time and
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Baldacci, David
- Publisher
- New York : Warner Books
- Published
- 1998
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780965084116
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Mystery, Adventure, Thriller
- Rating
- 4.06 / 5 (28,320 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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