• Whatever It Takes

  • By: Paul Cleave
  • Narrated by: David Calvitto
  • Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (5 ratings)

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Whatever It Takes

By: Paul Cleave
Narrated by: David Calvitto
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Publisher's summary

When seven-year-old Alyssa is kidnapped, Deputy Noah Harper decides he will do what it takes to find her - but that means crossing lines he can never come back from.

Finding the girl safe isn't enough to stop Noah from losing his job, his wife, and from being kicked out of Acacia Pines. He's told if he ever returns, he'll be put in jail and left there to rot.

Now, 12 years later, comes a phone call.

Alyssa is missing again and her father wants him to honour the promise he made to her all those years earlier - that he would never let anything bad happen to her again.

To find her, Noah is going to have to head back to the pines, and come face to face with the past...

Paul Cleave is currently dividing his time between his home city of Christchurch, New Zealand, where all of his novels are set, and Europe, where none of his novels are set. His novels have so far been translated into 20 languages. He has won the Saint-Maur book festival's crime novel of the year, has been shortlisted for the Ned Kelly award, the Edgar Award, the Barry Award, and has won the Ngaio Marsh award three times for NZ crime fiction.

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Critic reviews

On almost every page, this outstanding psychological thriller forces the reader to reconsider what is real.
-- Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

Breaking Bad reworked by the Coen Brothers.
-- Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)

Uses words like lethal weapons.
-- New York Times

Tense, thrilling, touching. Paul Cleave is very good indeed.
-- John Connolly, NYT bestselling author

A riveting and all too realistic thriller. Cleave is a writer to watch.
-- Tess Gerritsen, NYT bestselling author

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I always tend to inhale Paul Cleave novels. There is always that moment of, you have got to be freaking kidding me, did that just happen!? Great author.

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