The Accident: A Thriller

"The Accident" tells the story of a number of sururbanites who were selling knock off items in attempt to add to their family's incomes. Glen Garber was worried when his wife, Sheila, failed to return home from night school. When he took his own car and followed the route Sheila would take, he spotted an accident just off the highway. Getting closer, he recognized Sheila's car and when he rushed to the car he was stopped by police who told him that Sheila didn't survive the accident. In addition, he was apparently drinking and passed out. She is also accused of causing the accident which resulted in the death of two people in the other car. One of Sheila's friends, Ann Slocum, is ordered to meet an unnamed man who tells her that he wants his money. She had been selling unregistered pharmaceutical products. Later, Ann meets someone and there is a dispute which ends in her death. Glen has lost so much. Besides his wife's death, there has been a fire in a home that he was building and the investigation showed that it was caused by using shoddy equipment. With his business problems, and loss of his wife and children at his daughter Kelly's school treating her curelly, Glen seems surrounded by people intent on harming him and Kelly. We sympathise for him and yet come to admire him also because he doesn't ask for sympathy or give up after his world is crumbling around him. Barclay has written a riveting book about a man who demonstrates that one man, acting with conviction, can make a difference. This was an easy read with such excellent suspense that it's a hard book to put down. I found myself holding my breath in parts of the story and saying "Oh no!" and in other parts cheering for Glen's success.

Just finished reading, Couldn't put it down. It kept you interested from the 1st page til the end. Super book

Another GREAT book! You CANNOT put them down... I'm NOT kidding!