Gone
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4.7 • 3 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Detective Jack Caffery hunts a twisted carjacker in this Edgar Award–winning thriller from the "maestro of the sinister" and author of Birdman (New York Daily News).
Jack Caffery's new case seems like a routine carjacking until he realizes the sickening truth: The thief wasn't after the car, but the eleven-year-old girl in the back seat. And she's not the only young girl who's been taken.
Meanwhile, police diver Sgt. Flea Marley is pursuing her own theory of the case, and what she finds in an abandoned, half-submerged tunnel could put her in grave danger. The carjacker is always one step ahead of the Major Crime Investigation Unit, and as the chances for the victims' survival grow slimmer, Caffery and Marley race to fit the pieces together.
With this award-winning entry in her acclaimed series set first in London, and now in Bristol, England, "Hayder, again, proves expert at ratcheting up the tension" (The Independent).
"It's a tribute to Hayder's powers as a suspense writer that she completely turns the over-familiar premise of this novel inside out and upside down." —The Washington Post
"Compelling . . . First-rate mystery that takes full advantage of the wintry, moonlit West Country and the unusual skills of its lady diver." —Kirkus Reviews
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.
