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Do Not Become Alarmed
Oct 31, 2024 3:19 AM

Author:Maile Meloy

Do Not Become Alarmed

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Do Not Become Alarmed, written and read by Maile Meloy.

When Liv and Nora decide to take their husbands and children on a holiday cruise, everyone is thrilled. The ship's comforts and possibilities seem infinite. But when they all go ashore in beautiful Central America, a series of minor mishaps lead the families further from the ship's safety.

One minute the children are there, and the next they're gone.

What follows is a heart-racing story told from the perspectives of the adults and the children, as the distraught parents - now turning on one another and blaming themselves - try to recover their children and their shattered lives.

Reviews

A fine debut – fast-paced and bleak, with a vivid setting and gut-wrenching twists

—— Mick Herron

A vivid and noirish tale of an Englishman abroad discovering that you can run from everything but yourself. James Buckler is one to watch.

—— Simon Beckett, bestselling author of The Chemistry of Death

The vivid setting and skilfully plotted story is compelling and hard to put down.

—— Daily Express

This is character-driven fare, but with a vivid sense of place that positively leaps off the page.

—— Barry Forshaw, Crime Time

Racy and dark debut thriller.

—— Sunday Sport

One of the most impressive debut crime novels of the year.

—— Shots Mag

[An] impressive first thriller . . . the action is fast, copious and often unexpected.

—— The Times

John uses three memorable primary characters to tell a remarkable story about the most opaque country on Earth: North Korea … The lives of these people collide in a harrowing thriller that exposes an amazingly corrupt regime that embraces savage brutality and nearly every kind of lucrative criminal enterprise … a superior thriller.

—— Booklist

Star of The North reads like a cross between Child-44 and I am Pilgrim and is every bit as good as both of them. Read this book and you will not only feel that you've been to North Korea you will also never, ever want to go there. Brutally realistic, fascinatingly detailed, it's a fantastic thriller whose fantasy is all the more powerful for being based on truth.

—— Simon Toyne, bestselling author of the Sanctus trilogy and Solomon Creed series

The timeliest thriller of 2018. An intricately constructed puzzle box of spies and tradecraft that plunges the reader on a cyanide-laced sprint through North Korea.

—— Matthew Fitzsimmons, bestselling author of The Short Drop

An outstanding thriller that brings to life the seldom-seen underbelly of North Korea ….those seeking a realistic, highly readable look at North Korea will be rewarded.

—— Publishers Weekly

Brims with marvellous characters and delivers heart-in-your-throat action.

—— Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author

Original, cleverly plotted and easy to read...After a brilliant set up it’s action all the way to the...nail biting and powerful conclusion.

—— The Nudge

As gripping as it is shocking, this is an adrenaline-rush of a thriller that is also a devastating portrayal of a brutal regime. I couldn’t pull myself away.

—— Sabine Durrant, bestselling author of LIE WITH ME

Not only brilliantly plotted, with espionage, secrecy, and obsession, it’s a story about survivors, told by three complex and fully realised characters, each battling their own personal demons. John portrays the hardships of North Korea and its people with painful accuracy while never losing sight of their humanity. This one is definitely a star.

—— Chevy Stevens, New York Times bestselling author of Never Let You Go and Still Missing

An exhilarating, tightly-plotted page-turner - and a very moving one, too. Full of characters who will capture your heart and have you staying up far too late to find out their fate.

—— Emily Koch, author of IF I DIE BEFORE I WAKE

A fascinating, disturbing insight into this secretive country

—— Alison Flood , Observery

I’ll never again find anything funny about podgy North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, after reading this ripped-from-the-front-pages thriller.

—— Alex Gordon , Peterborough Evening Telegraph

[A] multistranded espionage thriller…told with drama and flair.

—— Wall Street Journal

Truly absorbing

—— Strong Words

John tells his story with skill

—— Patrick Anderson , Washington Post

John’s achievement is to embed these revelations in a vivid, convincing thriller. Long passages of undigested research are mercifully absent and it never feels like a mere pretext for an info-dump

—— John Dugdale , Sunday Times

‘[John] tells his exciting story well and is a fine writer of action scenes. But what really makes the book unmissable is its portrayal of everyday life for ordinary people in North Korea

—— Charlotte Heathcote , Sunday Express

- [A]n exceptionally exciting and stylish thriller

—— Irish Independent

[A] cast of marvellous characters and a storyline that blows your senses

—— Northern Echo

It’s a good plot, greatly enriched by the portrait of the totalitarian society that John draws

—— Marcel Berlins , The Times

A gripping novel of extraordinary insight… The fiction grips and the reality behind it bites – hard. A terrific and disturbing read

—— Guto Harri , The Tablet, **Books of the Year**

Courageous...intriguing...entertaining

—— Observer

A beautiful exploration of mental health and love

—— Stylist

The sequel to Beartown is finally here, and it does not disappoint.

—— Hello Giggles, US

This is a tale of the pitfalls of group mentality as well as the loss of an
innocence we all take for granted - and it will grip you from start to finish.

—— Canadian Living, Canada

Just as the cult TV hit Friday Night Lights wasn't just about high-school
football, this sequel to Beartown is about more than small-town hockey.
Us Against You is a story of hopes, dreams, loyalty, friendship, and - after
someone is left for dead - the lengths people will go to for the love of the game.

—— Hello! Canada, Canada

We have a rare book for you. [Us Against You] is not only about hockeyand sports. It's about everything that makes a man a man.

—— Pravo, Czech Republic

Backman uses an abundance of thrilling hints about upcoming events,
and it works. You simply have to continue reading. The story is
wonderful, deeply touching and very thought-provoking, and hats off
again to the author's ability to portray people and trends in society. The
novel plays on your entire register of emotions, and you live and breathe
alongside the many different characters, all of which are precisely and empathetically depicted.

—— Litteratursiden, Denmark

A beautiful and brutal drama.

—— Kristeligt Dagblad, Denmark

"Fredrik Backman is one of Sweden's best authors. He's mastered how
to depict a village and its citizens so that you both love and hate them.
/.../ Backman writes with emotion, and it goes straight to your heart. /.../
As always with Backman, there's still hope for humanity, because wherethere is violence and hatred, there is also forgiveness and love."

—— Bogblogger, Denmark

Us Against You is an excellent novel that's easy to read and skillfully
handles great themes. /.../ The world created by Backman lives andbreathes and the characters are both human and complex.

—— Aamuset, Finland

Backman keeps you hooked from the first to the last page. For allBeartown fans, Us Against You feels like coming home.

—— Hebban, Netherlands

Fredrik Backman writes wonderfully about men, with a love and
understanding for the ones who would rather solve conflicts with theirfists. It's hard not to love it.

—— Dagens Nyheter, Sweden

Backman knows how to construct a thrilling plot, and what he writes
engages. /.../ And when he hits his stride among the emotions, the
sentimental turns into an asset - like a hockey puck straight to the heart.

—— Landskrona Posten, Sweden

The perfect book for the beach.

—— Daily Mail

The most authentic, gripping presidential thriller ever.

—— Essence

The perfect book for the beach: a big, fast-paced, twisty engrossing thriller packed with spectacular detail of what it is really like to be President of the United States.

—— Daily Mail Ireland

Fast-paced is too inadequate a description for this dark, suspense-filled tale.

—— Guardian

Both a first-rate thriller and fascinating insight into the goings on within the White House.

—— Trucker magazine

A page-turner from start to finish

—— The People's Friend

Insightful and gripping

—— Good Living (ASDA)

A top-notch thriller.

—— Sun
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