'Deaver knits a seamless fabric of tightening tension right up to an explosive double whammy ending'
The Times.

The countdown begins at noon... when two teachers from a school for the deaf and their students stop to help at a car crash on an isolated road... and are immediately captured by three escaped convicts.

Stark against the prairie stands an ancient slaughterhouse that still reeks of decades of spilled blood.  It is here that cold killer Lou Handy will bring his hostages.  It is here that he will kill one innocent girl an hour, on the hour, until his demands are met.

'Excellent seige thriller.'
Daily Mail.

Kerry Shale's stage credits include His Girl Friday (National Theatre).  TV and film includes Cracker, Sharpe's Rifles and Code 46.  He has won three Sony Awards for radio acting and writing.