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Language English Pages 524 pp (first edition) Dewey Decimal 813/.54 21 Publisher Grand Central Publishing OCLC 37513081 | 4/5 Goodreads Publication date January 1, 1998 ISBN 978-0-446-52259-5 Originally published 1 January 1998 Country United States of America | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media type Print, e-book, audiobook Similar David Baldacci books, Thriller books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Winner is fiction novel by American author David Baldacci. The book was initially published on January 1, 1998 by Grand Central Publishing.
Plot
The novel tells the story of LuAnn Tyler, a destitute mother living in a trailer park, who meets with Jackson, a man running a massive lottery scam from inside the National Lottery. He offers her a chance to win the lottery, which she initially refuses until she finds herself falsely accused of murder and needing to run for her life with her young daughter in tow. He rigs the lottery so that she wins $100,000,000, on the condition that she leaves the United States and never returns. When she secretly returns ten years later, Jackson comes to punish her for disobeying him, the FBI is searching for her in connection with the lottery scam, and her only help comes from the mysterious Matthew Riggs.