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'VICTIM. KIDNAPPER. CRIMINAL. You will become each one. You are now part of the chain. Don't break the chain.
'THE ONLY WAY TO GET YOUR CHILD BACK IS TO KIDNAP ANOTHER.
'Listen carefully ...
Your child has been kidnapped.
You must abduct someone else's child to save your own.
Disobey. Break the rules. Go to the cops. Your child will die.
Your victim's parents must kidnap another child before yours is released.
You are now part of the chain.
'#DONTBREAKTHECHAIN'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
Notes
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In June 2019, Deadline announced that Paramount Pictures had acquired the screen rights to The Chain (https://deadline.com/2019/06/the-chain-uber-driver-adrian-mckinty-paramount-pictures-1202634191/).
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Thirteenth in the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards - Best Mystery & Thriller with 6,275 votes.
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Works about this Work
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Adrian McKinty : The Chain
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , August 2019;
— Review of The Chain 2019 single work novel'Adrian McKinty has won multiple awards for his crime novels featuring Belfast detective Sean Duffy. With The Chain he moves into new territory, producing a flat-out thriller.' (Introduction)
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To Save Her Abducted Daughter, This Heroine Has to Kidnap a New Victim
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: The New York Times , 10 July 2019;
— Review of The Chain 2019 single work novel'It took four countries, three continents, a couple of careers, philosophy studies at Oxford, serious writing awards and major gonna-make-you-a-star-kid machinations in several fields of endeavor to yield this opening sentence from Adrian McKinty...' (Introduction)
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To Save Her Abducted Daughter, This Heroine Has to Kidnap a New Victim
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: The New York Times , 10 July 2019;
— Review of The Chain 2019 single work novel'It took four countries, three continents, a couple of careers, philosophy studies at Oxford, serious writing awards and major gonna-make-you-a-star-kid machinations in several fields of endeavor to yield this opening sentence from Adrian McKinty...' (Introduction)
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Adrian McKinty : The Chain
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , August 2019;
— Review of The Chain 2019 single work novel'Adrian McKinty has won multiple awards for his crime novels featuring Belfast detective Sean Duffy. With The Chain he moves into new territory, producing a flat-out thriller.' (Introduction)
Awards
- 2020 winner Barry Award — Best Thriller
- 2020 winner Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing — International Crime Fiction
- 2020 winner Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year
- 2020 winner International Thriller Writers' Thriller Awards — Best Hardcover Novel