02480cam a2200301 4500 503814876 TxAuBib 20210615120000.0 190405s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780062678287 Hardcover 0062678280 Hardcover TxAuBib Barclay, Linwood. Elevator Pitch : A Novel / Linwood Barclay. First edition. New York, NY : William Morrow, 2019. 453 pages : hardcover. It all begins on a Monday, when four people board an elevator in a Manhattan office tower. Each presses a button for their floor, but the elevator proceeds, non-stop, to the top. Once there, it stops for a few seconds, and then plummets. Right to the bottom of the shaft. It appears to be a horrific, random tragedy. But then, on Tuesday, it happens again, in a different Manhattan skyscraper. And when Wednesday brings yet another high-rise catastrophe, one of the most vertical cities in the world—and the nation’s capital of media, finance, and entertainment—is plunged into chaos. Clearly, this is anything but random. This is a cold, calculated bid to terrorize the city. And it’s working. Fearing for their lives, thousands of men and women working in offices across the city refuse to leave their homes. Commerce has slowed to a trickle. Emergency calls to the top floors of apartment buildings go unanswered. Who is behind this? Why are they doing it? What do these deadly acts of sabotage have to do with the fingerless body found on the High Line? Two seasoned New York detectives and a straight-shooting journalist must race against time to find the answers before the city’s newest, and tallest, residential tower has its ribbon-cutting on Thursday. With each diabolical twist, Linwood Barclay ratchets up the suspense, building to a shattering finale. Pulsating with tension, Elevator Pitch is a riveting tale of psychological suspense that is all too plausible . . . and will chill readers to the bone. 20210615. Elevators Accidents Fiction. Serial murder investigation Fiction. Police New York (State) New York Fiction. Journalists Fiction. Manhattan (New York, N.Y) Fiction. Psychological fiction. Thrillers (Fiction.) TXHAM