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Fortress

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At school the morning bell rang. The children were cooperative and eager to help in preparation for the inspector. Without warning their peace was shattered by the appearance at the window of a grotesquely masked figure. It was the start of a forty-eight-hour ordeal of terror for Sally Jones and her small band of pupils, kidnapped by a gang of sinister and sadistic men asking for a cool million dollars ransom for their victims. Sally's first concern is to protect and comfort the children, but as their nightmare continues she becomes determined to escape and then, together with the children, to destroy ...

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Gabrielle Lord

Gabrielle Lord

Gabrielle Lord has worked as a teacher, brick cleaner, peach picker, labourer, market gardener and office worker. FORTRESS, her first novel, was published in 1980, sold internationally, and made into a successful film. Since then, Gabrielle has written a string of stylish crime novels and young adult books, received numerous awards, and has become one of Australia s best-known authors.

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