Vanishing Act (Jane Whitefield Series #1) [NOOK Book]

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Overview

Vanishing Act introduces Thomas Perry's popular heroine Jane Whitefield, a Native American guide who secretly provides sanctuary to fugitives seeking new identities. In assisting the mysterious former cop John Felker, Jane is drawn into a trap that will take all of her cunning and the knowledge of her ancestors to escape.

A page-turning thriller from the bestselling author of Butcher's Boy. Jane Whitfield makes people disappear. A Native American, she is expert in creating a new identity and life for people who need it. But her latest client is not whom he appears to be. Whitfield tackles this most mysterious of cases with cunning ...

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Overview

Vanishing Act introduces Thomas Perry's popular heroine Jane Whitefield, a Native American guide who secretly provides sanctuary to fugitives seeking new identities. In assisting the mysterious former cop John Felker, Jane is drawn into a trap that will take all of her cunning and the knowledge of her ancestors to escape.

A page-turning thriller from the bestselling author of Butcher's Boy. Jane Whitfield makes people disappear. A Native American, she is expert in creating a new identity and life for people who need it. But her latest client is not whom he appears to be. Whitfield tackles this most mysterious of cases with cunning and a deeply-rooted ancestral understanding of the natural world.

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Publishers Weekly
Perry's sixth novel (after Sleeping Dogs) is a taut thriller that at times reads like an extended, though flawed, character study of its heroine. Jane Whitefield, half-white, half-Indian member of the Seneca Wolf clan, helps people disappear-people like Rhonda Eckerly, fleeing her abusive husband, or Harry Kemple, hoping to stay alive after witnessing a gangland shooting. Like a one-woman witness protection program, Jane has helped both vanish by giving them new identities and new starts at life. Now an alleged new victim has invaded Jane's upstate New York house: John Felker claims that he's a cop-turned-accountant, is being framed as an embezzler and has a contract out on his life. Almost immediately, the men chasing Felker appear, and Jane leads him farther upstate, to a Canadian Indian reservation where he can build a new life. Jane is an original and fascinating creation. Like Andrew Vachss's series hero, Burke, she operates outside the law, but with a particular slant born of her distinct character and Seneca heritage. Perry tells her story in a trim and brisk manner, moreover, with plenty of action and suspense. It takes Jane far longer than it will most readers to figure out that Felker is other than what he says, however, and while her trusting nature, which borders on gullibility, generates tension, it doesn't mesh with her hard-boiled profession and hunter-like wiles. It's only when the truth behind Felker is revealed, and Jane acts decisively on it, that most readers will regain the respect they've lost for this otherwise likable and unusually intriguing heroine. (Jan.)
From The Critics
Perry is best known for his antihero comic thrillers like Metzger's Dogs (LJ 9/15/83) and The Butcher's Boy (LJ 8/82). Here he has a new hero, a woman who draws on the strengths of her upstate New York Native American tradition to guide those in trouble to safety by creating new identities for them. Her latest case involves an ex-cop turned accountant who has been set up to take a dive for an unknown enemy. After an opening that is a graphic grabber, the cop's recounting of his story and Jane's deciphering of it from her point of view are almost too convoluted. Once the action gets going, however, Perry is back on track, though this novel lacks the comic twists that earmarked his earlier works. The ending is a stunner, with Jane and the bad guy battling it out Indian-like in the North Woods (read the Adirondacks). A cut above average, but not Perry's best. Buy where nonformula thrillers are popular. [Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 9/15/94.]-Francine Fialkoff, "Library Journal"
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Jane Whitefield, a Native American guide who secretly provides sanctuary to fugitives seeking new identities, helps John Felker, who draws her into a dangerous world where she must use the knowledge of her ancestors to escape.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780307417633
  • Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
  • Publication date: 12/18/2007
  • Sold by: Random House
  • Format: eBook
  • Pages: 368
  • Sales rank: 38,866
  • Series: Jane Whitefield Series, #1
  • File size: 496 KB
  • Items ship to U.S, APO/FPO and U.S. Protectorate addresses.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 18, 2002

    WOW----It Will Knock your socks off

    I have been looking for a good mystery series to read, and a relative told me about Thomas Perry... I wasn't sure I'd like his books, because I don't usually read the same things that she does; however, she insisted I take the first two books of the Jane Whitefield series with me on vacation over Christmas break. I read both of them in three days, and wanted more. This book is good, but the second one is even better. I can't wait to read the rest of them. These are better than anything out there! I started getting really bored with other authors, because of the lack of imagination that seems to be so commonplace in novels, but with Thomas Perry, you can tell that he really KNOWS how to write, how to use the English language, and how to kep reeling you in.... He is incredible! If you are looking for a really great book, start with this one, it's the first in a series.... (I think there are 4).......and I know you won't be disappointed.

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  • Posted August 17, 2011

    Pure Genius!

    Wow! This book grabs you by the throat from the first page and never lets up! I couldn't put it down; tons of non-stop action, suspensful twists, fascinating characters and an orignal plot set against an intriguing background. Perry's writing is nothing short of phenomenal; this was the first of his books that I've read but not the last.
    If you like this book, you should also try the Jack Reacher series by Lee Child.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 20, 2007

    I loved it!!

    This is a super book. I love the whole Jane Whitefield series, and so does my husband. I have also read all of Mr. Perry's other books, and loved them all.

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