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Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2002
Language
Español
Description
A novelist in a limousine around Mexico City is kidnapped after receiving a literary prize. As of that moment, the writer spends all his time tied to a chair blindfolded; his only company in order not to lose his mind is the obsessive voice he hears in his mind. All he does is think; he remembers deaths, blindness, and darkness in Literature. The questions: who, how, why and when are left floating in the air. The narration comes from his mind and...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Kidnapped by an intruder, Claire, a sufferer of acute panic disorder, finds herself imprisoned in a hotel with her abductor as her only companion, a trauma that forces her to reevaluate her life and threatens to shatter her sense of sanity.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Paul Janson, an ex-assassin for the United States government, teams up with an accomplished sharpshooter, Jessica Kincaid, to rescue a doctor abducted by African pirates in international waters and realizes there are larger forces at work when their liberation mission goes awry.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestseller Iris Johansen is back with another high octane thriller that will leave your mind racing and your heart pounding. Despite her tragic childhood, violin prodigy Cara Delaney has finally found peace in her career as a professional musician and stability in her relationship with her guardians, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan and ex-Navy SEAL Joe Quinn. If only Jock Gavin, Cara's lifelong friend and a man with his own twisted history,...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A harrowing and heart-wrenching memoir of humanitarian aid worker Buchanan's kidnapping by Somali land pirates, her three months in captivity, her rescue by the Navy SEALs, and her husband's extraordinary efforts to help bring her home.
In 2006, 27-year-old Jessica Buchanan arrived in Nairobi, Kenya, with long-held dreams of helping to educate African children. By 2009, she had met and married a Swede named Erik Landemalm, who worked to coordinate...
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