Freedom’s Child
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- 5,49 €
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- 5,49 €
Beschreibung des Verlags
A heart-stopping debut thriller about a woman named Freedom, who will stop at nothing to save the daughter she only knew for two minutes and seventeen seconds.
Call me what you will: a murderer, a cop killer, a fugitive, a drunk…
Freedom Oliver has spent the last eighteen years living a quietly desperate life under Witness Protection in a backwater of Oregon after being exonerated of her husband’s murder.
But now Freedom’s daughter Rebekah is missing, the same one who was wrenched from her arms just moments after birth. Freedom slips her handlers and embarks on an epic journey across the US to Kentucky, determined to find her child.
No longer under the protection of the U.S. Marshalls, Freedom is tracked by her late husband’s psychotic brothers, who will stop at nothing in their quest for vengeance. But they are not the only threat she faces as she draws nearer to the horrifying truth behind Rebekah’s disappearance…
Reviews
'A terrific read from a powerful new voice ' Karin Slaughter
‘Original, compelling and seriously recommended.’ Lee Child
‘Seldom has a literary creation bounced off the page with as much raw vitality … one of the standout debuts of the year’ Guardian
‘There’s a reckless power to Miller’s untamed prose… And sometimes she’s just plain amazing’ New York Times
‘Crackles with intensity, keeping the reader gripped’ Express
‘Chilling … A compelling read, but don’t expect to get a good night’s sleep afterwards’ Sunday Times (Ireland)
‘A propulsive, full-throttle tale of revenge and redemption’ Irish Times
‘It’s fast, it’s furious and it takes no prisoners’ Sunday Independent (Ireland)
‘A relentless and fiercely compelling debut. Freedom’s Child will hold you captive until the very last page’ Richard Montanari
‘Freedom’s Child isn’t just a great debut, it’s a great book with one of the most angry, complex and compelling heroines this side of a certain girl with a certain tattoo’ Simon Toyne
‘I loved it. Such an original new voice’ Kate Medina
‘Brilliant’ Julia Crouch
About the author
Jax Miller was born and raised in New York and currently lives in Co. Meath, Ireland. She was shortlisted for the CWA debut dagger for unpublished writers in 2013 under her real name, Aine O' Domhnaill.
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Boozing, brawling, and fierce but emotionally fragile, Freedom Oliver has been pissing away her life in witness protection like someone with nothing left to lose until fate unexpectedly offers her one last long shot at redemption in this debut thriller, which hits like a beer bottle to the head. Freedom, a heavily inked redhead known in a former life as Nessa Delaney, is shaken out of her stupor slinging drinks at a biker bar in Painter, Ore., by the release from prison of her vengeance-bent brother-in-law, Matthew. Matthew is a member of the spectacularly sociopathic Delaney clan, headed by a 600-pound coke-dealing matriarch, and he lusts for payback from the woman he blames for framing him for murder. Even worse, the Delaneys may get their hands on the two now-grown children Freedom gave up for adoption, Mason and Rebekah. When Freedom learns that Rebekah has disappeared from her adoptive home in Goshen, Ky., she's but a stolen bike and Glock away from a desperate race to save the daughter she never knew. Some of the cross-country action strains credulity, but between the gutsy heroine and gale-force narrative, you'd be churlish to quibble.
