In this chillingly plausible thriller by CWA Gold Dagger winner Mick Herron there is no hiding under the desk The New York Times Book Review. When a gunman breaks into South Oxford Nursery School and takes a group of hostages teacher Louise Kennedy fears the worst. But Jaime Segura isnt there on a homicidal mission and hes just as scared as those whose lives he holds as collateral. As an armed police presence builds outside the schools gates the only person Jaime will talk to is Ben Whistler an