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Fiction. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:From the bestselling author of Alone and The Killing Hour comes a thriller that goes from heartbreaking to heartstopping in the blink of an eye.� When someone you love vanishes without a trace, how far would you go to get them back? For ex-FBI profiler Pierce Quincy, it�s the beginning of his worst nightmare: a car abandoned on a desolate stretch of Oregon highway, engine running, purse on the driver�s seat. And his estranged wife, Rainie Conner, gone, leaving no clue to her fate. Did one of the ghosts from Rainie�s troubled past finally catch up with her? Or could her disappearance be the result of one of the cases they�d been working� a particularly vicious double homicide or the possible abuse of a deeply disturbed child Rainie took too close to heart? Together with his daughter, FBI agent Kimberly Quincy, Pierce is battling the local authorities, racing against time, and frantically searching for answers to all the questions he�s been afraid to ask. One man knows what happened that night. Adopting the alias of a killer caught eighty years before, he has already contacted the press. His terms are clear: he wants money, he wants power, he wants celebrity. And if he doesn�t get what he wants, Rainie will be gone for good. Sometimes, no matter how much you love someone, it�s still not enough. As the clock winds down on a terrifying deadline, Pierce plunges headlong into the most desperate hunt of his life, into the shattering search for a killer, a lethal truth, and for the love of his life, who may forever be�gone.… (more)
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Complicated, involved and interesting this is a compelling read. Occasionally predictable then it suddenly changes and adds an interesting twist.
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For ex-FBI profiler Pierce Quincy, it's the beginning of his worst nightmare. A car has just been found abandoned on a desolate stretch of Oregon highway, engine running, a woman's purse on the drivers seat. And
Did one of the ghosts from Rainie's troubled past catch up with her? Or could her disappearance be connected to a vicious double homicide they'd been investigating? One man knows what happened that night. And if he doesn't get what he wants, Rainie will be gone for good. Now, as a terrifying deadline nears, Pierce plunges into the most desperate hunt of his life, in search of a killer, a lethal truth, and the love of his life. But getting back what he 's lost may be murder.
The thing that annoyed me most about this book was the dialog. People simply don't talk this way. 1. e.g.: here's the
Finally, I'm not a crime writer so I have no idea how things should go, but there seems to be a lot of expository stuff at an uninterestingly low level. Like the profiler giving a vanilla report that nonetheless floors the negotiator. Or tension between departments working on the case that seems forced and irrelevant.
So on to my favorite test...in another writer's hands, could this have been successful? I like the setup of a PTSD heroine fighting an addiction, becoming a victim herself. I also like the little firebug as a sympathetic character. If the good guys had actual personalities, and more urgency were built, sure.
Finally, I don't know if these are characters in a series...they read that way. I don't want to check until I'm done with the book though, because it should be able to stand alone even if party of a series.
I doubt I'll pick up another LG soon.
I enjoyed this novel for a variety of reasons. For one, it was action-packed and fast-paced. There was always some new clue or level of drama being introduced in the story. The characters had their flaws, but were also fairly compelling. Raine has to deal with her alcoholism as she’s dealing with trying to free herself and the boy. Easy drama and tension are created by the race the police have to do against time in order to save them. I read a lot of thrillers and many of them tend to blend together, but this is one of the better ones.
Carl Alves – author of Blood Street
The are plenty of twists and turns in this fast paced novel. Rainnie is haunted by a past case of a murdered girl and her mother. I don't know if that was from a previous Gardner novel, but just the brief description it got in this book haunted me. "Gone" is an exciting kidnapping mystery. The excitement comes from the characters and their situations, not the plot's ultimate outcome.