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Crafting a chilling, strategy-driven thriller packed with “nifty new tricks” (Publishers Weekly), Jeffery Deaver lifts the veil on a clandestine government agency—pitting two “ingenious” (Library Journal) opponents in a high-stakes duel of wits with deadly consequences. Behind the well-known US security apparatus—FBI, CIA, and more—lurks a top-secret agency specializing in intelligence surveillance and witness protection through its elite operatives. When Washington, DC, police detective Ryan Kessler becomes the inexplicable target of Henry Loving, a ruthless freelance lifter who uses torture, kidnapping, and family leverage, an existential threat to life itself is unleashed. Enter Corte, a senior federal protection officer—a “shepherd” driven by personal vendetta and decked with tactical brilliance and board-game inspired strategy. As Loving resurfaces six years after killing Corte’s mentor, the stage is set for a deadly match. Corte is entrusted to safeguard the Kessler family and unravel the mystery: who hired Loving, and why? With assistance from investigator Claire DuBois and FBI agent Paul Fredericks, Corte must anticipate every move of the lifter. What follows is a relentless chase, escalating psychological tension, and twisting revelations as family bonds fray under pressure. Lee’s axiom—“people will do anything to anybody, if the edge is right”—defines the deadly contest. Edge is a stand-alone government agency thriller that fuses intense psychological suspense, tactical game theory, and moral complexity. Fans of calculated espionage, modern crime thrillers, and plot-twisting suspense will relish this duel between protector and predator. Read more
Listening Length: 14 hours and 50 minutes
Author: Jeffery Deaver
Narrator: Skipp Sudduth
Whispersync for Voice: Ready
Audible.com Release Date: November 02, 2010
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Program Type: Audiobook
Version: Unabridged
Language: English
ASIN: B004ADT92S
Best Sellers Rank: #105,049 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #448 in Espionage Thrillers (Books) #1,113 in Espionage Thrillers (Audible Books & Originals) #1,128 in Police Procedurals (Books)
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I have enjoyed Deaver's novels since happening upon "A Maiden's Grave". I found "The Edge" thoroughly enjoyable and dare I say, one of his best? So often successful authors continue to write in the particular style that found their success in the first place. Same type of characters, same kind of twists, same smorgasbord of flavors mixed together so much so, that every novel produced is similar to those previously written. This is perfect when it's another Lincoln Rhyme or Katherine Dance novel. However I feel "The Edge" must be respectfully classed as a standalone. It has the expected, unexpected twists worthy of a Deaver novel.(I really thought I had it all figured out a couple of times, only to be shown yet again, Deaver is a master and I'm just along for the ride.) And I loved the pace of it. Like a well choreographed orchestra it paces steadily, impacts with a degree of force and flows out in multiple directions. I am about to read it again...
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Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2010 by Nyami
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Edge, by Jeffery Deaver, (2011). A standalone thriller by the Chicago-born New York Times bestselling author of THE BONE COLLECTOR and THE BURNING WIRE, best known for his Lincoln Rhyme and Kathryn Dance series. The author’s BONE COLLECTOR was made into a feature release, starring and Angelina Jolie and Denzel Washington as Lincoln Rhyme; his A MAIDEN’S GRAVE was made into an HBO film retitled DEAD SILENCE, starring James Garner and Marlee Matlin. Deaver has also authored CARTE BLANCHE, a new James Bond novel. This novel focuses on a secret federal agency that exists behind the well-known U.S. security organizations, such as the FBI and CIA . This anonymous agency is dedicated to intelligence surveillance a highly specialized brand of citizen protection. The book opens as Washington, D.C., police detective Ryan Kessler suddenly, inexplicably becomes the target of Henry Loving, a seasoned, ruthless kidnapper/torturer/murderer, what the agency unofficially calls a “lifter.” Loving is generally hired by interested parties to obtain information from his victims by whatever means necessary. Which in his case, although he’s a deft torturer, usually means getting an “edge” on his victim—leverage—by kidnapping or threatening family until what the agency calls the “primary,” the person the lifter is actually interested in, caves under pressure. The job of keeping the Kessler family alive falls to Corte, protagonist/narrator, a senior federal protection officer--a position the agency unofficially calls a “shepherd.” Corte is uncompromising, devoted to protecting those in his care, a board game aficionado who applies gaming strategies to his work. For Corte, the reappearance of Loving—the man whom he’d thought several years dead, who, six years earlier, had tortured and killed his mentor—is also a chance to avenge his friend’s death. The assignment soon escalates, in addition to Corte’s duty to protect the Kessler family, into a fast-paced duel between two well matched opponents. As he shepherds the Kesslers to a concealed safe house, Corte must anticipate Loving’s every step, knowing the lifter will surely move in on them. With the help of his mentee, investigator Claire DuBois and his longtime ally, FBI agent Paul Fredericks, Corte struggles to discover which of Kessler’s seemingly insignificant cases has triggered Loving’s interest. The team digs deeper, scrutinizing each of the family, wife Joanne, her sister Maree, Kessler’s daughter Amanda by a previous marriage: in captivity their family bonds are stretched to the breaking point. Finally, as the lifter draws closer in this prolonged cat and mouse game, Corte must choose between his duty to protect his charges or to expose them to a killer for long-awaited revenge. Thriller Award–winner Deaver (THE BODIES LEFT BEHIND) has done quite a job here. His characters are well-rounded; his settings, cities, houses, countrysides, the Washington, D.C. and its environs setting, well-painted, his dialog, terse, believable, his story, compelling. Within this --- admittedly long, 540 page book—the writer manages to give the reader twists and turns galore, almost to the last page, as he first convinces us that each of the family, in turn, is the primary, then shows us that he/she is not. He is an award-winning poet , journalist, -- and musician--who received a Bachelor of Journalism degree from the University of Missouri. He was a magazine writer, then, to gain the background needed to become a legal correspondent for The New York Times or Wall Street Journal, he enrolled at Fordham Law School. After graduation, he worked for several years at a large Wall Street firm. In his prolific writing career, Deaver has been nominated for six Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America, an Anthony award, a Gumshoe Award, and is a three-time recipient of the Ellery Queen Reader's Award for Best Short Story of the Year. In 2001, he won the W.H. Smith Thumping Good Read Award for his Lincoln Rhyme novel THE EMPTY CHAIR. In 2004, he was awarded the Crime Writers Association of Great Britain's Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for GARDEN OF BEASTS and the Short Story Dagger for "The Weekender." His novels have been translated into 35 languages, have appeared on a number of bestseller lists around the world, including the New York Times, the London Times and the Los Angeles Times. At some earlier time in my life, I read one of Deaver’s books, didn’t much care for it, never read another, until my mystery book club decided on this one for next month. I surprised myself by liking it, finding it fast paced, inventive. Found the opening, introducing too many characters at once, particularly in the prequel chapters, hard going, might have given up on it were it not a mystery book club assignment. Also would have liked to have seen female characters other than wives, pearl-wearing personal assistants. Quite tired of books that center on naughty doings among holders of high government office. But there’s no denying it’s a good thriller. Thank you, mystery book club.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2016 by Stephanie De Pue Murphy
Format: Hardcover
Edge is a gift to Deaver's fans. He knows what his readers expect and he knows how to deliver. The standard Deaver novel is a tightly-paced thriller, occupying a brief span of time and including multiple twist endings. Edge is no exception. A standalone, it concerns a man named Corte who works as a `shepherd' in an obscure government agency. Shepherds protect `principals' from `lifters', hired criminals charged with the responsibility of extracting information from those principals. They are hired by `primaries'. You can already see where this is going--in Edge (an `edge' being something that either a shepherd or a lifter can use for advantage) Corte is shepherding the members of a family. Knowing that this is a Deaver novel, we can't be sure, until the very end, which of the family members is the actual principal and who the dark background presence, the primary who hired the lifter, actually is. We do know the identity of the lifter--a stone killer/torturer named Henry Loving, who both tortured and killed Corte's friend and mentor. The novel is set in Washington, a city whose culture and geography Deaver knows well. The only bone I would pick concerns travel times (I lived in the D.C. area for 17 years). Corte and his friends are able to travel through the area much more quickly than I ever could. (Not quite as quickly as Jack Bauer traverses Los Angeles, but very quickly.) The characters in Edge are superb and even though this is a rapid-fire novel of suspense there's still enough time to get to know and either like or loathe all of them. With Edge on the shelves, Deaver is completing work on his James Bond novel after which he will return to alternating between Lincoln Rhymes (even-numbered years) and Kathryn Dances (odd-numbered years). Hopefully he will have occasion to return to Corte's world at some time in the future. I had the pleasure of meeting Jeff Deaver in August and attended his mini- master class at the Killer Nashville conference. In addition to being a lovely man he is a writer who is devoted to the task of pleasing his equally-devoted reading public. In Edge, Deaver (as always) delivers. Highly recommended.
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Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2010 by Richard B. Schwartz
Format: Kindle
Had to keep reading. One page leads to the next. Suspicious. Thought you had the bad guy then no you didn't. Keep on reading. Loved the ending.
Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2025 by LinnyLou
Format: Kindle
Officer Corte’s job is to protect people being hunted, called principals. He’s tasked with getting them to a safe place. And once there, keeping them safe. His opponents, called lifters, are professional assassins or other hired nasty folks who search for an edge, a way to find out where the target is. That edge is terrifying. And the one in charge, the primary, is pulling the strings behind the scenes. This current batch of principals, a former cop, his wife and daughter, and sister-in-law, have backgrounds that make them possible targets. The authorities know one of them is the key, just not which one. The person the bad guys are seeking information from. In this case the chaser is formidable. A professional lifter Corte had previously encountered. Super smart and always seeming to be one or two steps ahead of Corte. The guy continually escapes carefully set traps. Attempting to discover the identity of the principal they’re after and why, makes Corte’s situation more complicated. Each of his protected has a feasible reason for being sought. But each of them has been cleared from Corte’s list of possibles. Who is it? Why are they being hunted? Deaver’s done it again. Edge keeps you guessing and excuse me, on the edge of your seat until you sadly reach the end. You close the book wanting more.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2022 by J. D. Webb
Format: Hardcover
ok by know you know the story line secret govt agency that protects witnesses at all costs and can act outside the law and has iunlimited resources to protect their witnesses from a super criminal "lifter" out tog et information from the witness. Keep this in mind becuase during the book we learn that this super agency knows the name and identity of the "lifter" and has for years but never bothers to learn until now that his cousin is a doctor in DC area, that his family home in is DC area and used as hideout and other impossibly stupid facts that this super agency never thought of before. while the book was fun and interesting i just could not get past these simple facts.
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Reviewed in the United States on November 10, 2010 by D. Kalata
Format: Kindle
"Edge" here means "advantage". As in, something used to apply pressure to someone. Our protagonist, an experienced protector of targets from those trying to pry information from them, finds himself facing an old enemy, a not-to-cooperative family in danger, and a lot of trouble just figuring who, exactly, is the target. Tense and well-written, this is a very good Deaver novel.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 26, 2024 by Paul S. Person
Format: Hardcover
Deaver has done it again. I have enjoyed nearly all of his stand alone books but had heard mixed results about this one. The suspense was constant through the whole book and even though I swore I had the ending all figured out for most of the book, Deaver was able to stump me again. I have read everything by Deaver and thought I had his trademark twists and turns all laid out and I thought I had the whole thing figured out ten chapters in. I even had alternates in case he twisted the story in a different direction. Well, he played with me though most of the story. I would get to a part and he would confirm my predictions only to rip those theories to shreds two chapters later. There were a lot of editing mistakes, general typos and wrong words, but it is easy to get past. For anyone looking for a quick read with lots of suspense and thrills. I highly recommend this one. It is just under 400 pages but it flew by so quickly it seemed much shorter. Deaver has never let me down and is still my all time favorite author. I still think this was a great read.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2013 by Anonymous