Taken

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Product Description No parent believes it can happen to them -- their child taken from a suburban schoolyard in the gentle hours of dusk. But as widowed mother Kate Bickford discovers, everything can change in the blink of an eye. One minute her lanky, amazing, maddening Tommy is begging for ice cream. Then in a terrible instant, he's gone. Opening the door to her Connecticut home, hoping to find her son, Kate comes face-to-face with her son's abductor. He wants money. All she has. And if she doesn't follow something he calls The Method, the consequences will be gruesome. Her comfortable life collapses as precious seconds tick by, and Kate is horrified to uncover the terrible, world-shattering secret she and her son share with a killer who will stop at nothing.... From Publishers Weekly When caterer Kate Bickford's 11-year-old son, Tomas, vanishes after his Little League game in Fairfax, Conn., she races home, hoping to find him. Instead, she discovers a mother's worst nightmare: Tomas's kidnapper, Capt. Steve Cutter (former Special Ops). Cutter is not only an abductor but also a ruthless liar, who frames the wealthy young widow for the murder of her son's baseball coach, Sheriff Fred Corso, whose body has been dumped in Kate's basement freezer. After delivering the ransom that Cutter demands, Kate soon discovers the kidnapper has no intention of returning Tomas, and she is the prime suspect in Corso's murder. To make matters worse, the authorities seem totally indifferent to finding her missing child, the one false note in this otherwise riveting suspense tale from Jordan, pen name for Rodman Philbrick ( Freak the Mighty). Kate hires Maria Savalo, a sharp attorney, and Randall Shane, an eccentric expert in child abduction cases, and even snags assistance from two of her loyal employees to find Tomas. Jordan's full-throttle style makes this an emotionally rewarding thriller that moves like lightning. (July) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Review ". . . a single mother's terrifying fight . . . will send chills up your spine." -- New York Times bestselling author Steve Berry "Harlan Coben meets Mary Higgins-Clark -- that's Taken." -- Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author of The Templar Legacy "Jordan's full-throttle style makes this an emotionally rewarding thriller that moves like lightning." -- Publishers Weekly on Taken About the Author Chris Jordan is the pen name of a writer who grew up on the New England coast and has been writing novels since the age of sixteen. His books have won many awards and have been translated into numerous languages. One of his novels was adapted into the film The Mighty, starring Sharon Stone. He and his wife, journalist and writer Lynn Harnett, divide their time between Maine and the Florida Keys.

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