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Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 2019 The Chain
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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

  • 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/).
  • Thirteenth in the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards - Best Mystery & Thriller with 6,275 votes.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Hachette Australia , 2019 .
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      Extent: 368p.
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      • Published 9 July 2019.

      ISBN: 9780733642517, 9780733642524
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,      :       Mulholland Books ,       2019 .
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      Extent: 368p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 9 July 2019
      ISBN: 9780316531245
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Hachette Australia , 2020 .
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      Extent: 1vp.
      Note/s:
      • Published February 2020
      ISBN: 9780733644627
    • New York (City), New York (State),
      c
      United States of America (USA),
      c
      Americas,      :       Mulholland Books ,       2021 .
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      Extent: 400p.p.
      Description: Mass market pbk.
      ISBN: 9780316463256
Alternative title: Цепь
Transliterated title: T︠S︡epʹ
Language: Russian
    • St Petersburg,
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      Russia,
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      Former Soviet Union,
      c
      Eastern Europe, Europe,      :       Azbuka ,       2019 .
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      Extent: 412p.p.
      ISBN: 9785389167063, 5389167066
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Works about this Work

Adrian McKinty : The Chain Jessica Stewart , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , August 2019;
— Review of The Chain Adrian McKinty , 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)
To Save Her Abducted Daughter, This Heroine Has to Kidnap a New Victim Janet Maslin , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: The New York Times , 10 July 2019;
— Review of The Chain Adrian McKinty , 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)
To Save Her Abducted Daughter, This Heroine Has to Kidnap a New Victim Janet Maslin , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: The New York Times , 10 July 2019;
— Review of The Chain Adrian McKinty , 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)
Adrian McKinty : The Chain Jessica Stewart , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , August 2019;
— Review of The Chain Adrian McKinty , 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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