What would you do for love? Would you die? Landscape gardener Mitchell Rafferty was busy planting beds of impatiens for one of his clients when his phone rang.

It was a voice he didn't know. 'We have your wife. Mitch thinks it must be some kind of a joke.

But whoever is on the other end of the line is dead serious. 'Rifle fire shatters the stilllness as the man goes down, shot in the head. 'The caller doesn't care that Mitch has no way of raising such a vast sum.

He's confident that Mitch will find a way. 'Mitch does love her enough. He's got sixty hours to prove it.

He'll pay anything. A story of love, tenacity and courage with the pace of a runaway train, from its tense opening to its shattering climax, 'The Husband' is a thriller that holds the reader in its relentless grip.