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    "description": "<p>&lsquo;Another perfect page-turner&rsquo; The Times<br />&lsquo;A triumph from the master thriller writer&rsquo; The Sun<br />In this twisty thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Take Your Breath Away, a man desperately tries to track down his father &ndash; who was taken into witness protection years ago &ndash; before his enemies can get to him.<br />Your dad&rsquo;s not a good person. Your dad killed people, son.<br />These are some of the last words Jack Givins&rsquo;s father spoke to him before he was whisked away by witness protection, leaving Jack and his mother to pick up the shattered pieces of their lives.<br />Years later, Jack is a struggling author, recruited by the U.S. Marshals to create false histories for people in witness protection. Jack realises this may be a chance to find his dad &ndash; but then he discovers he&rsquo;s gone missing, and he could be in serious danger.<br />Jack knows he has to track him down. But how will he find a man he&rsquo;s never truly known? And how will he evade his father&rsquo;s deadly enemies &ndash; enemies who wouldn&rsquo;t think twice about using his own son against him?<br />PRAISE FOR THE LIE MAKER:<br />&lsquo;Linwood Barclay has crafted another perfect page-turner&rsquo; The Times<br />&lsquo;Pacey and tense, it&rsquo;s a triumph from a master thriller writer. Every page makes your heart beat that little bit faster&rsquo; The Sun<br />'Twisty, emotional, surprising, and told at a breakneck pace, Linwood Barclay&rsquo;s The Lie Maker shows once again he&rsquo;s one of the best thriller writers working today. This is a read-in-one-sitting kind of story' David Koepp</p>",
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