The Abduction: A Novel - Brossura

Holt, Jonathan

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ISBN 10: 0062267051 ISBN 13: 9780062267054

Casa editrice: HarperCollins, 2015

Riassunto

The Abduction is the heart-pounding, adrenaline-fuelled follow up to Jonathan Holt&;s highly acclaimed international thriller The Abomination&;a modern tale of mystery, treachery, and intrigue that moves between the physical and virtual worlds of Venice, Italy, blurring the boundary between dark fantasy and terrifying reality.

An unlikely trio must form an alliance to save a kidnapped young girl and untangle a nefarious plot that reaches back decades.

Second Lieutenant Holly Boland is an intelligence analyst trained to look for clues ordinary investigators miss. When a U.S. army officer&;s daughter is kidnapped from an American base in Venice, Holly is sure that the mysterious abductors want more than a ransom.

Venetian police captain Kat Tapo has found a webcam feed embedded in the encrypted website Carnivia.com, a virtual Venice. It streams video of a terrified teenage girl, hooded and tied to a chair. A strand of text scrolls across the screen: &;Sensory deprivation is not torture.&; Is the girl the missing daughter of the American military officer? Who is behind the cryptic message?

Daniele Barbo, the genius webmaster and creator of Carnivia, has never let the government access his servers, and finding the missing girl is not his problem. But then secrets from Italy&;s dark wartime past begin to surface&;revelations that could put them all in danger. To save his own skin, Daniel must decide how far he&;s willing to let them in.

In a race against time, Holly, Kat, and Daniel must find the shocking truth . . . or watch as more than one innocent life is sacrificed.

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Recensione:

“Enthralling.... Holt deftly avoids prurience or gratuity while conveying the horror of walling, waterboarding, and similar practices... raising troubling questions about how the U.S. defines its allies and foes, and how it treats both.” (Publishers Weekly)

“Holt gives us excruciating suspense in the kidnapping narrative, suspense that’s heightened by also presenting the victim’s shifting point of view, from a benign ‘This is a matter of business’ to unraveled terror.” (Booklist)

L'autore:

When Jonathan Holt first traveled to Venice, he found it shrouded in thick fog and flooded with high water. This experience inspired him to write the Carnivia Trilogy, a series of thrillers based on Italy’s hidden past. The Abomination and The Absolution, the first two books, have now become international bestsellers published in sixteen countries. The second novel in the trilogy was longlisted for a Crime Writers’ Association Steel Dagger Award.

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• Editore: HarperCollins
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0062267051
• ISBN 13: 9780062267054
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 457