Lights Out

By Peter Abrahams

Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Lights Out is a 1994 thriller by Peter Abrahams, author of The Fan. It was nominated for the Edgar Award for best novel. Eighteen-year-old Eddie Nye was bound for college when he was framed for drug smuggling during a summer in the Bahamas. He served fifteen years in prison, went in innocent, and comes out dangerous. Free at last, he wants to stay clean, but his search for who set him up draws him into a dangerous plot hatched inside a prison cell.

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