Death Takes the Bus

<p>The plan was well made.</p><p><br></p><p>The bus carrying Hardin to the death house was commandeered precisely on schedule. Hardin free of handcuffs backed by his number-one thug forced the bus out into the desert toward the rendezvous with the black sedan. And then the plan exploded.</p><p><br></p><p>The sand storm rose-one of the worst in Southern California's history-and the bus was mired down hopelessly.</p><p><br></p><p>The bus driver was shot to death.</p><p><br></p><p>And-most dangerous of all-courage flamed in the shocked passengers. Weaponless silent but as one they struck back against the men of violence-and paid them off in their own brutal coin!</p><p><br></p><p>Lionel White has achieved a grand telling of a story as he concentrates first on one character then on another picking up the individual threads and building them into a brilliantly integrated climax. <em>Death Takes the Bus</em> is a masterpiece of originality a highly plotted and ingeniously executed story of suspense.</p><p><br></p><p>In <em>Death Takes the Bus</em> master of suspense Lionel White crafts a tense tightly-woven mystery that keeps readers on edge from start to finish. The story begins when a routine bus trip that takes a chilling turn. A diverse group of passengers boards the bus expecting nothing more than a quiet journey to their destination. However their plans are derailed when one of them is an escaped convict looking for a rendezvous with his old pals.</p><p><br></p><p>Filled with psychological tension and White's trademark noir style <em>Death Takes the Bus</em> is a gripping and haunting exploration of human nature under extreme circumstances.</p>