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    Standoff
    Standoff
    Standoff
    Audiobook6 hours

    Standoff

    Written by Sandra Brown

    Narrated by Enid Graham

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    TV reporter Tiel McCoy is driving down Interstate 20 on her way to New Mexico for a well-earned vacation. But her itinerary is rewritten when she hears on the radio that the teenage daughter of a well-known Fort Worth multi-millionaire has been kidnapped, at least that's the official report. In truth, she is pregnant and has run away with her boyfriend. After calling her editor, Tiel abandons her holiday plans in favor of pursuing the story.
    During an innocuous visit to a convenience store in Rojo Flats, Tiel gets up close and personal with the barrel of a gun, two desperate young lovers -- and the scoop of a lifetime.
    In the electrifying standoff that follows, she learns why the two young runaways fear the wealthy father of one of them even more than the FBI...and why she must defend them against a world bent on their destruction.
    Poignant and riveting, Standoff is suspense at its best, as only Sandra Brown can create it.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateMay 1, 2000
    ISBN9780743567824
    Standoff
    Author

    Sandra Brown

    Sandra Brown is the author of seventy-three New York Times bestsellers. She has published over eighty novels and has upwards of eighty million copies of her books in print worldwide. Her work has been translated into thirty-five languages. Four books have been adapted for film. She lives in Texas.

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    • 2/5
      I usually travel with my Kindle precisely so I won't get stuck without anything to read and subject to the extremely limited selection at the airport bookstore--but that's exactly what happened. Brown's novel, about a TV reporter named Tiel McCoy who ends up as part of a hostage situation, isn't exactly terrible. In fact, the first 80% or so of the novel is quite readable. It takes place in a convenience store where Tile is being held along with the kidnapped and very pregnant teenage daughter of a rich Texas businessman and a half-dozen others. It?s when the stand-off ends and the book turns into a romance that it really becomes awful: predictable, sappy, and exactly what I dread about traveling the nothing-to-read-in-the-airport scenario.
    • 2/5
      The plot was just ok. The reader left much to be desired. So much of the inner workings had no real ring of real life. Maybe that’s why it’s fiction.
    • 3/5
      Fast, entertaining, suspenseful read.
    • 3/5
      wasn't to bad of a book. have read several of her books
    • 5/5
      A friend of mine gave me this book. I love Sandra Brown, the way she tells a story, along with her writing style, so I gladly excepted. This story is as gripping as they come... I was pulling for Ronnie and Sabra. At times it was nail-biting. I thought I had the ending figured out. With one minor twist I didn't see coming that I found shocking. Great characters, great story. I give this book 5 of 5 stars...
    • 4/5
      If Mills and Boon wrote suspense/thrillers they would probably read something like this. Like a skilfully padded short story, it takes place over a few hours, covering a siege at a convenience store where hostages are being held at gunpoint. It delivers what it sets out to - some twists and turns, a bit of tension (though you kind of suspect everything will turn out fine), and a spot of romance. I don't read a lot of stuff like this, but as a one-off it was fine.
    • 3/5
      This will be my first and last Sandra Brown boo. The story involves a well known TV reporter on vacation who just happens to become involved in,a hostage taking at a local gas station. The hostage takers are a pair of teenagers who want to run away to elope from the girl's overbearing father. She of course is pregnant and gives birth during the incident. Not my cup of tea.
    • 4/5
      I received an ARC from publisher.This is my first read from David Rollins so was new to the whole Vin Cooper world. I generally like to start books in a series from 1 to end of series.This book I made the exception and glad I did.I really enjoyed Vin's character and tend to agree with the comparison made of him to Jack Reacher.Highly recommend this action packed thriller.
    • 2/5
      I usually travel with my Kindle precisely so I won't get stuck without anything to read and subject to the extremely limited selection at the airport bookstore--but that's exactly what happened. Brown's novel, about a TV reporter named Tiel McCoy who ends up as part of a hostage situation, isn't exactly terrible. In fact, the first 80% or so of the novel is quite readable. It takes place in a convenience store where Tile is being held along with the kidnapped and very pregnant teenage daughter of a rich Texas businessman and a half-dozen others. It’s when the stand-off ends and the book turns into a romance that it really becomes awful: predictable, sappy, and exactly what I dread about traveling the nothing-to-read-in-the-airport scenario.
    • 3/5
      For a hostage siege situation story, this wasn't a bad story and had me gripped for two days, till the end, but the characters disappoint.
    • 3/5
      Junk food reading - a page turner, with bonus "survival sex" in the end. Kept me interested through the whole book, but nothing to think about afterwards. Good airport book, probably. I would have liked it better without the bodice-ripper part at the end, which felt unnecessarily graphic.
    • 2/5
      Well, another of those books scored from someone emptying their shelves. I should know better. I thought this was going to be a thriller - but no - it was a romance novel with the storyline approximating a thriller.It wasn't terrible. I made it all the way through without hurling it against the wall. What was wrong about it was the characters. The heroine was not believable (ask me for examples). The plot was full of coincidence to throw the girl and the tall dark handsome cowboy with a mysterious past (avoiding spoilers) together.I'm trying to write a sex scene at the moment - I hope I do a more realistic job than the fluffy piece of erotica at the end of this. (I probably won't).For what it's worth - I have nothing against romance novels - and if I had read it for this purpose then maybe it would pass muster.
    • 2/5
      This was more a novella than a usual Sandra Brown novel, and as such, was pretty blah. The story never fully develops beyond the actual standoff situation, and we’re never given a chance to really connect with our main characters. Brown also uses a main character combo (a successful tv reporter and the man she has mistakenly wronged) that she returns to in a later novel, Smoke Screen. We get the obligatory sexual tension between Tiel and Doc, followed by the obligatory sex scene, but it all feels very… obligatory. Step 1: Woman finds herself in life-threatening situation with mysterious, handsome man. Step 2: Woman and Man band together to escape situation and bring it to a happy ending. Step 3: Woman and Man have life-affirming sex to cope with traumatic situation. This could have been great if it had been written with the complexity you usually find in a Brown novel. Instead, it just left me wanting more.
    • 2/5
      Tiel McCoy is a work-aholic, a hard-working, go-get-em broadcast journalist for a Dallas TV station, who is long overdue for a vacation. After having her producer almost force her to use up some of her vacation days, she decides to spend a week in a rented condo in the mountains of Angel Fire, New Mexico. But, on the drive there, she hears a news bulletin on the car radio that puts her plans on hold. The teenaged daughter of one of Fort Worth's richest power-players has been kidnapped. A quick call to her boss nets her some inside information that the girl might not have been kidnapped at all, but instead has likely run away with her boyfriend, a boyfriend who's father just happens to live near where she happens to be. A quick pit stop at a convenience store for a potty break and caffeine turns into a life-threatening drama when a young man with a pistol and a pregnant young lady come in to demand cash and gasoline. The resulting standoff will test Tiel's endurance, her preconceived notions and her journalistic objectivity.Okay, that's the basic plot, and in and of itself made for a fairly good story. Not the "gripping page turner" the cover blurb promised, but still entertaining enough. No real surprises here, though, and the obligatory "torrid love story" stuck in at the end felt awkward, out of character for the two involved, and totally unnecessary. Sandra Brown can write a good book. I know she can because I've read a couple of them. Unfortunately, this isn't one of them.
    • 3/5
      Sort of disappointing. Boring standoff, til ending when there was sex involved. Predictable ending. Was written in REAltime supposedly, but didnt feel like it at all. 4/17/00
    • 3/5
      Short book, average mystery