书名：If Tomorrow Comes假如明天来临
作者：Sidney Sheldon
出版社名称：HarperCollins
出版时间：2012
语种：英文
ISBN：9780006479673
商品尺寸：11.1 x 3.7 x 17.8 cm
包装：平装
页数：592

西德尼·谢尔顿堪称“世上很会讲故事的人”，作品全球总销量超过3亿册。他的作品多以年轻美丽的坚强女性为主角，细腻地刻画了女性心理情感，深受女性读者的喜爱。

If Tomorrow Comes《假如明天来临》是这位通俗小说之父的经典之作。这是一部励志色彩浓厚的小说，主人公特蕾西是谢尔顿笔下激动人心的女主角，评论家称她为“绽放在城市黑暗深处的正义之花”、“女性的基督山伯爵”。

据说《假如明天来临》尚未完稿，哥伦比亚广播公司就以百万元美元天价买下电视改编权，其经典的越狱情节更是影响了《肖申克的救赎》、《越狱》等众多佳片。由此可见本书长久不衰的魅力。

精彩书评：
他知道怎样施展魔力，给我们高级的娱乐。——美国《人物》杂志

自始至终我们都在暗中和谢尔顿比试智慧，他从来都超出我们想象的边界。——《里士满时报》
One of Sidney Sheldon's most popular and bestselling titles, repackaged and reissued for a new generation of fans. Tracy Whitey is on top of the world. Young, beautiful, intelligent, she is about to marry into wealth and glamour - until, betrayed by her own innocence, she finds herself in prison, framed by a ruthless mafia gang and abandoned by the man she loves. Beaten and broken, but surviving with her dazzling ingenuity, Tracy emerges from her savage ordeal - determined to avenge those who have destroyed her life. Her thirst for revenge takes her from New Orleans to London, from Paris to Madrid and Amsterdam. Tracy is playing for the highest stakes in a deadly game. Only one man can challenge her - he's handsome, persuasive and every bit as daring. Only one man can stop her - an evil genius whose only hope of salvation is in Tracy's destruction! Sidney Sheldon is one of the most popular storytellers in the world. This is one of his best-loved novels, a compulsively readable thriller, packed with suspense, intrigue and passion. It will recruit a new generation of fans to his writing.
Review
‘A master storyteller at the top of his game.’ USA Today

‘Compulsively readable.’New York Times Book Review

‘Sidney Sheldon is a master of giving the public what it wants’ Los Angeles Times

If Tomorrow Comes《假如明天来临》讲述当一个天真的少女对未来抱有无限憧憬的时候，命运的陷阱却彻底改变了她的人生。母亲的自杀，邪恶势力的迫害，使她失去一切，含冤陷入万劫不复的境地。在地狱里她变得成熟，变得坚强。运用自己的智慧和善良摆脱自由的枷锁，重新回到自由的空气中。而此时她已不是从前那个单纯的女人。利用自己独有的智慧和魅力，她展开一系列复仇行动，亲眼目睹邪恶的下流骗子遭到应有的报应，为自己，为母亲，报仇雪恨。但接下去的人生又将如何度过呢？在现实的无奈中，她已经回不到过去。在几度犹豫和彷徨中她选择了与人世间所有贪婪丑恶的人进行智慧和勇气的角逐……

The international bestseller from the master of suspense. A mafia conspiracy and one women against the world.
Tracy Whitey is on top of the world. Young, beautiful, intelligent, she is about to marry into wealth and glamour – until, betrayed by her own innocence, she finds herself in prison, framed by a ruthless mafia gang and abandoned by the man she loves. Beaten and broken, but surviving with her dazzling ingenuity, Tracy emerges from her savage ordeal – determined to avenge those who have destroyed her life. Her thirst for revenge takes her from New Orleans to London, from Paris to Madrid and Amsterdam. Tracy is playing for the highest stakes in a deadly game. Only one man can challenge her – he’s handsome, persuasive and every bit as daring. Only one man can stop her – an evil genius whose only hope of salvation is in Tracy’s destruction…

西德尼·谢尔顿（1917-2007），美国著名的通俗小说作家，是世界上集奥斯卡奖、托尼奖和艾美奖于一身的作家。

根据吉尼斯世界纪录的记载，他是世界上被翻译得很多的作家，作品被译成51种语言，引介到180个国家和地区，全球总销量超过3亿册，前17部小说全部荣登过《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜的榜首。著有《假如明天来临》、《午夜的另一面》、《天使的愤怒》、《谋略大师》等小说，他的作品节奏明快、情节紧凑、悬念重重，主人公大多是在复仇、背叛谜局中决死拼斗的自强女性。
Sidney Sheldon is the mega-selling international author of seventeen previous bestselling novels. He features in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's most translated author. He is also a highly acclaimed, award-winning scriptwriter for stage, film and television.

New Orleans
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20  -  11:00 P.M.
She undressed slowly, dreamily, and when she was naked, she selected a bright red negligee to wear so that the blood would not show. Doris Whitney looked around the bedroom for the last time to make certain that the pleasant room, grown dear over the past thirty years, was neat and tidy. She opened the drawer of the bedside table and carefully removed the gun. It was shiny black, and terrifyingly cold. She placed it next to the telephone and dialed her daughter's number in Philadelphia. She listened to the echo of the distant ringing. And then there was a soft "Hello?"
"Tracy... I just felt like hearing the sound of your voice, darling."
"What a nice surprise, Mother."
"I hope I didn't wake you up."
"No. I was reading. Just getting ready to go to sleep. Charles and I were going out for dinner, but the weather's too nasty. It's snowing hard here. What's it doing there?"
Dear God, we're talking about the weather, Doris Whitney thought, when there's so much I want to tell her. And can't.
"Mother? Are you there?"
Doris Whitney stared out the window. "It's raining." And she thought, How melodramatically appropriate. Like an Alfred Hitchcock movie.
"What's that noise?" Tracy asked.
Thunder. Too deeply wrapped in her thoughts, Doris had not been aware of it. New Orleans was having a storm. Continued rain, the weatherman had said. Sixty-six degrees in New Orleans. By evening the rain will be turning to thundershowers. Be sure to carry your umbrellas. She would not need an umbrella.