Stealing People
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
Around the world, the children of the rich are disappearing . . . A chilling thriller starring kidnapping expert Charles Boxer, “a great character” (Kirkus Reviews).
Kidnapping expert Charles Boxer is contemplating retirement. He’s found a measure of contentment, even as a mystery from his own past gnaws at his sense of justice. Meanwhile, his ex-wife, Mercy, balances a complicated personal life with an even more precarious professional one in the woefully under-resourced metropolitan police department. But both are suddenly pulled back into action when six children of ultrawealthy families vanish—families from India, China, Russia, Australia, Germany, and the United States—taken by a ruthlessly efficient organization with a single astonishing demand.
Trapped, off-balance, and with little left to lose, they plunge into a cauldron of warring intelligence agencies, morally destitute billionaires, and human traffickers, coming finally to a fateful reckoning that will forever change them—in this smart, suspenseful thriller by a Gold Dagger and Gumshoe Award–winning author.
“A great character whose emotional trials are exciting to follow.” —Kirkus Reviews
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The opening of Wilson's intelligent if overly ambitious third thriller starring kidnapping consultant Charlie Boxer (after 2015's You Will Never Find Me) chillingly depicts several well-staged, perfectly executed kidnappings in the course of about 32 hours in London. The six victims are all children and young adults from exceptionally wealthy families with close ties to the governments of their countries of origin (India, China, Russia, Australia, Germany, and the U.S.). The London police are all over the high-profile case; Boxer gets involved when a young woman hires him to find her missing father, who "supplies security to the U.S. military." Meanwhile, the minor crook boyfriend of Boxer's ex-wife, Det. Insp. Mercy Danquah, disappears. Wilson raises disturbing questions about growing economic inequality and the hidden, privatized world of mercenaries and outsourced security. Readers will struggle, however, to keep track of the book's many plot lines, characters, and their motives.
