ORDEAL

Dutton, New York, 1997, 1^st/1^st.  ISBN 0-525-94202-5.  Hard cover, 436 pages including Acknowledgments.  Unread copy, remainder mark on bottom edge.  Dust jacket price-clipped with 1997 price label on inner front flap, with light edge wear, some cover wear, light creases and some rubs.  ‘Wren Cameron is a survivor.  She has survived a turbulent love affair with Jeremiah Hunter, the charismatic leader of a militia group.  She has survived an FBI raid on the group’s remote encampment, and seemingly endless days and nights as a fugitive, hiding from the law.  Now, sixteen years later, her struggle to reinvent herself has borne the sweet fruit of a wonderful marriage and two beloved children. … Jeremiah Hunter, fresh from prison, has succeeded where the federal government failed.  He has fund Wren and kidnapped her and her fifteen-year-old son Daniel, taking them to his new camp in the Southwest desert.  His plan is one of monstrous destruction and coercion – getting Wren to help him bomb an office building in a major Texas city while holding Daniel’s life hostage.’ (from front flap)