Hunted
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4.1 • 34 Ratings
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
In this "flawless" (Lee Child), action-packed thriller that will "keep you guessing until the very end" (Ruth Ware), two parents facing catastrophe must find their lost children before the unthinkable can happen.
A Washington Post Best Thriller of the Year
An Amazon Best of the Month Mystery & Thriller Pick and an Amazon Editors' Personal Pick
In London, the police storm Heathrow Airport to bring in a father for questioning about his missing daughter.
In Florida, a mother makes a connection between her son and the bomber, fearing he has been radicalized.
And in Oregon, an unknown organization’s conspiracy to bring America to its knees unfolds…
On the run from the authorities, the two parents are thrown together in a race against time to stop a catastrophe that will derail the country’s future forever.
But can they find their kids before it’s too late?
For fans of The Chain and I Am Pilgrim, this ground-breaking, blockbuster thriller is unlike any other thriller you will read this year.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Though he’s famous for his historical mysteries, Abir Mukherjee plunges exhilaratingly into the present with this electrifying thriller. In the run-up to a highly contentious U.S. presidential election, a bomb detonates inside a California shopping mall, sending shockwaves through a world already on edge. Authorities supposedly identify the bomber as a young Muslim woman, but FBI agent Shreya Mistry doesn’t buy it—not that anyone at the Bureau cares what she thinks. Well, almost anyone. Mukherjee plunges Mistry into chaos as she tries to stamp out a lit fuse that could set the Western world on fire. Mukherjee smartly lets the concepts of good guys and bad guys become open to interpretation in the novel as a dangerous feeling of disenfranchisement spreads through all but the most powerful areas of society. Hunted captures the zeitgeist of a fraying world with a scary level of insight.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Mukherjee strays from his Wyndham & Banerjee historical series to deliver a cunning standalone rooted in contemporary America's fractured political landscape. After a bloody bombing in a Los Angeles mall, FBI agent Shreya Mistry identifies a young Muslim woman as the culprit. A group calling themselves the Sons of the Caliphate claim responsibility, threatening future attacks. With mere days left in a neck-and-neck presidential race between a right-wing ideologue and the country's Democratic vice president, a resurgence of Islamist terrorism could tip the balance. After Shreya uncovers the L.A. bomber's connection to a small town outside of Portland, Ore., she teams up with fellow FBI agent Susan Kramer, and the pair discover another potential bomber on the loose: Aliyah Khan, a young British woman radicalized by her sister's death during a political protest. Meanwhile, Aliyah's father, Sajid, heads to Oregon from London to stop her from carrying out the will of Miriam, a charismatic "soldier masquerading as messiah," whose deadly—though opaque—mission seems poised to topple the upper echelons of U.S. government and law enforcement. The diverse, well-drawn cast, clever investigative work, and breakneck pacing easily carry readers through the novel's many-tentacled plot. With this pulse-pounding thriller, Mukherjee proves he's just as good at mining the present for suspense as the past.
