Gone
(Jack Caffery Book 5): the thrilling page-turner that will keep you hooked from bestselling author Mo Hayder
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4.5 • 17 Ratings
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- $15.99
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
Fans of Stephen King, Karin Slaughter and Stuart MacBride will love this gut-churning, chilling and darkly compelling thriller.
'Lacerating' Independent
'Stomach-churning, fast-paced, top-notch' Sunday Express
'A particularly potent blend of terror and horror' The Times
'Nothing short of brilliant' Daily Mail
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HE WATCHES. HE WAITS. HE TAKES WHAT ISN'T HIS.
Night is falling as murder detective Jack Caffery arrives to interview the distraught victim of a car-jacking.
What he hears horrifies him. The car was taken by force, and on the back seat was a passenger. An eleven-year-old girl. Who is still missing.
Before long the jacker starts to communicate with the police. And Caffery becomes certain that he is planning to take another car. And another child.
Who is the car-jacker? How is he choosing his targets? And - most urgent of all - can Caffery find the child?
Before it's too late . . .
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A carjacking goes from bad to horrifying in Hayder's gripping fifth thriller featuring Bristol Det. Insp. Jack Caffery and Sgt. Phoebe "Flea" Marley (after Skin). When Rose Bradley's car is stolen with her 11-year-old daughter, Martha, inside, it appears to be a routine snatch-and-grab. It becomes clear, however, that the carjacker had his sights set on the girl, not the vehicle, when he begins taunting the police, who scramble to find clues to Martha's whereabouts. Jack soon discovers a pattern of similar kidnappings disguised as car thefts, with the level of violence ratcheted up in each case. As Jack tracks the kidnapper above ground, Flea's search takes her below ground and underwater into a decommissioned canal and tunnel, where she fights to save her own life and that of the kidnapped child. Hayder expertly brings to life the claustrophobia of Flea's dives and the emotional burden of the case on Jack.
