Taken

by Chris Jordan

Paperback, 2006

Status

Available

Call number

F JOR

Call number

F JOR

Barcode

3430

Publication

Mira (2006)

Description

Fiction. Suspense. Thriller. HTML: 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.....… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member GaylDasherSmith
I had a very hard time putting this down. It was a very suspense-filled mystery. The twist on kidnapping--the kidnapper moving in with the victim's family was interesting as was the secondary plotline about the kidnapper's wife. Well done!
LibraryThing member jwhalen
Amother's worse nightmare is having a child taken, the fear, the unreality of it all comes crashing through in this book

Rating

(25 ratings; 3)

Pages

378
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