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“Brilliant!”
—John Lescroart on Abandon
For Will Innis and his daughter, Devlin, the loss was catastrophic. Will’s wife, Devlin’s mother, vanished one night during an electrical storm on a lonely desert highway and, suspected of her death, Will took his daughter and fled. Then one night, a hardedged FBI agent appears on their doorstep and says, “I know you’re innocent, because Rachael wasn’t the first…or the last.”
She dragged her purse into her lap and shoved her hand inside, rummaging for the cell phone. She found it, tried her husband’s number, but there was no service in the storm.
Rachael looked into the back of the Jeep Cherokee at the spare. She had no way of contacting AAA and passing cars would be few and far between on this remote highway at this hour of the night. I’ll just wait and try Will again when the storm has passed.
Squeezing the steering wheel, she stared through the windshield into the stormy darkness, somewhere north of the border in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. Middle of nowhere.
There was a brilliant streak of lightning. In the split second illumination she saw a black Escalade parked a hundred yards up the shoulder.
Thunder rattled the windows. Five seconds elapsed. When the sky exploded again, Rachael felt a strange, unnerving pull to look through the driver side window.
A man swung a crowbar through the glass.
If you can past the little far-fetched opening of an attorney wife's disappearance and then instead of the possibility of arrest, husband and daughter flee and then have a FBI-agent find you to tell you that not only does she think you are innocent, there were others abducted (this all in the first few pages), then you have a fast-paced, action packed, full of energy thriller. Will Innis and his daughter flee their home after his wife Rachael is abducted and before the police can arrest him (although he is innocent) and lead a quiet life under an alias until he is found by FBI agent Kalyn Sharp and asked to help her track down the abductors. Is she telling the truth? Can she help them find closure? The chase to find the answers leads to a remote part of Alaska and the climax. There were parts that were unbelievable but I took it as an escapist story and actually enjoyed the ride.
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Posted August 18, 2010
This book was a terrific read. I thought the first chapter or two were run of the mill, and then it just took off.
The plot twists come up on you and make you stop and think. And the ending is anything but formularistic.
Anyone who reads this book will be rewarded with a fast paced, exciting story.
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Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.Rachel Innis works late at the free clinic in Sonnoyta just thirty miles north of the border. She heads home during a thunderstorm, but swerves to avoid a deer on the road. She stops the car, but a man with a crowbar slams at her window.
Her husband Will the Attorney works on a closing brief while waiting for his wife to come home, but dozes off. The cops inform him they found her abandoned vehicle with the driver's side window smashed and no blood. Will, accompanied by his beloved eleven year old daughter Devlin, a cystic fibrosis victim, leaves as he believes they not just suspect him, the police want to hang him for his legal defense record
Over the next five years, Will and Devlin move around and change identities. Now FBI agent Kalyn Sharp finds Will and explains she knows he is innocent. He agrees to work with the Fed to learn what happened to his still missing wife.
This is an exciting thriller, but readers must leave their credibility meter somewhere as Will comes across extremely illogical especially with his assumption of guilt when he is a lawyer and taking his daughter who has a chronic disease when she had family options to keep her safe. Fast-paced throughout, fans will want to know just like Will and Devlin what happened to Rachel.
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“Brilliant!”
—John Lescroart on Abandon
For Will Innis and his daughter, Devlin, the loss was catastrophic. Will’s wife, Devlin’s mother, vanished one night during an electrical storm on a lonely desert highway and, suspected of her death, Will took his daughter and fled. Then one night, a hardedged FBI agent appears on their doorstep and says, “I know you’re innocent, because Rachael wasn’t the first…or the last.”