Beyond Gone
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2.0 • 1 Rating
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- $8.99
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Publisher Description
Return Specialist Simon Fisk is about to go on his most dangerous mission: rescuing the granddaughter of the US Secretary of State from terrorists.
Simon Fisk, a specialist in recovering abducted children, is on a routine case in Cape Town when he suddenly finds the body of the suspect he has been following. Believing he is being framed for murder, he runs and soon discovers the job was merely a ruse to lure him to the continent.
There, Simon will be tasked with his most dangerous mission yet: trekking through the African bush to locate a group of terrorists responsible for abducting the granddaughter of the US Secretary of State.
Although Simon prefers to work alone, he is accompanied by university professor Jadine Visser, an old flame, who quickly proves adept at survival. But why is she involved? And how will they locate the underground militant group bent on using the girl in a high-profile terror attack before it’s too late?
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Corleone's unconvincing fourth Simon Fisk thriller (after 2015's Gone Cold) takes Fisk, a PI who specializes in overseas abduction cases of children by noncustodial parents, to South Africa, ostensibly to retrieve a Staten Island schoolteacher's son, only to find that he's been set up by U.S. Secretary of State James Coleman. Coleman's 16-year-old granddaughter, Kishana, "a Peace Corps volunteer posing as a Sudanese aid worker with no ties to the United States," was one of the victims of a recent mass abduction of girls from a Christian enclave in Nigeria. The secretary offers "the best psychiatric counseling in the Western hemisphere" for Fisk's traumatized 19-year-old daughter, Hailey (she was kidnapped as a child and years later suspected of murder), as well as a free ride to the college of her choice, if he agrees to save Kishana from her terrorist captors. Fisk accepts, despite the daunting nature of the mission. Strained similes (the "brakes screeched like a pack of rabid hell hounds") don't help. Readers who prize action over logic may find something to enjoy.
