Dead in a Week
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What would you do if your daughter was kidnapped and given only a week to live?
Lauren Pennington is celebrating her junior year abroad when life comes to a screeching halt. At Munich's Hofbräuhaus, she engages in an innocent flirtation with a charming stranger for the length of a drink. Drink finished, Lauren leaves—only to be snatched from the streets and thrown into an unmarked van.
Officially, Aidan Deveraux is a communications expert for one of the largest financial firms in the world. In his secret life, the former Marine heads the Zermatt Group, a covert team of military and spy agency operatives that search the data stream for troubling events in an increasingly troubled world. When his artificial intelligence system detects Lauren's kidnapping, Aidan immediately sees the bigger picture.
Silicon Valley: Lauren's father, Vance Pennington, is about to launch a ground-breaking technology with his company NanoUSA—a technology that the Chinese are desperate for. No sooner does Aidan arrive on Vance's doorstep to explain the situation than the father receives a chilling text message: hand over the technology or Lauren will be dead in a week.
In a globe-spanning chase, from the beer halls of Germany, to the tech gardens of California, to the skyscrapers of China, and finally the farmlands of Croatia, Aidan's team cracks levels of high-tech security and complex human mystery with a dogged determination. Drawing in teammates from the Forensic Instincts team (introduced in The Girl Who Disappeared Twice), the Zermatt Group will uncover the Chinese businessmen responsible, find the traitors within NanoUSA who are helping them, and save Lauren from a brutal death.
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At the start of bestseller Kane's riveting seventh Forensic Instincts novel (after 2017's A Face to Die For), college student Lauren Pennington, on a junior year abroad, is kidnapped in Munich. Her abductors have been hired by someone who wants to obtain the technology that NanoUSA is about to release that will revolutionize the electronics industry. The company's v-p of manufacturing is Lauren's father, Vance. Vance is approached by Aidan Devereaux, whose job at the world's largest investment bank is a cover for his involvement in the Zermatt Group, a team of former analysts of the National Security Agency who monitor data for signs of possible global crises. Aidan, who determines that Lauren has been abducted, offers Vance his team's services to bring his daughter home safely. When the kidnappers contact Vance, they demand the technology be delivered within seven days, leading Aidan's team to undergo a dangerous, high-pressure investigation spanning three continents to locate and free Lauren. This thriller is a nail-biting adventure with a stunning conclusion.
