Hostage Zero
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4.3 • 408 Ratings
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- $6.99
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
A mysterious kidnapping kicks off ”a roller-coaster ride of adrenaline-inducing plot twists” in this thriller by the New York Times bestselling author (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
With his elite team of agents at Security Solutions, hostage rescue expert Jonathan Grave goes where the government can't. Now he’s been called in to locate two teenage boys who have been kidnapped from a residential high school in Virginia. But tracking them down is just the beginning.
To keep them and his covert team alive, Grave plunges into the heart of an ugly secret whose insidious path reaches from one of the world's most remote places into the highest corridors of power. And he must defeat enemies who are willing to kill to keep the truth from being revealed.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The addictively readable second thriller featuring freelance hostage rescue operative Jonathan "Digger" Grave (after 2009's No Mercy) marries a breakneck pace to a complex, multilayered plot. When two teenage boys are inexplicably kidnapped from a Virginia residential school for children of incarcerated parents, Grave and his crew set out to locate the victims and apprehend the abductors. Then one of the boys is drugged and left to die in a field, saved only by the fateful intervention of a passing homeless man, and Grave's investigation begins to turn up leads that point to government and organized crime connections. A roller-coaster ride of adrenaline-inducing plot twists leads to a riveting and highly satisfying conclusion. Exceptional characterization and an intricate, flawlessly crafted story line make this an absolute must read for thriller fans.
Customer Reviews
Good read. Major detail error.
Good read. Like the characters.
Pet peeve a detail wrong. Marines are not medics. They have corpsmen from the Navy. The average Marine 0311 has been given significant medical training. So with a small change or two the accuracy increases.
Wow,Fantastic book
I was always a big fan of authors like James Patterson, really love murder mysteries. I tried this author at the suggestion of iBooks and the cheap price iTunes offered to give some different writers a try. Well,I'm hooked. On my third one in a week.
“Marine Medic”!!??
One of the prominent characters in this book is an honorably-discharged “Marine medic” (with Navy Cross, no less) suffering from ptsd as a result of his combat experience. The problem is that there is no such thing as a Marine Medic; this function is the province of Navy Corpsmen (Devil Docs) who hate being called medics. Other than this glaring failure in research I would have given the book 4 stars.