You will never find me / Robert Wilson.
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TextSeries: Wilson, Robert, Charles Boxer series ; 2.Publisher: New York : Europa Editions, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Description: 433 pages ; 21 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1609452542
- 9781609452544
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A father follows his runaway daughter into a world of crime and espionage in this thriller by "one of the more sophisticated writers in his field" ( Kirkus Reviews ).
Amy Boxer, the precocious, frustrated daughter of kidnap consultant Charles Boxer and DI Mercy Danquah, has decided on drastic action: she's leaving home. But Amy can't just walk out. First she goads her parents with a challenge: YOU WILL NEVER FIND ME.
Amy's destination: Madrid. Here, in the strobe lights of bars and crowded dance clubs, she's anonymous and untraceable. Except to a volatile, unpredictable leader in the city's drug trade, the man known only as El Osito. Boxer will use his very specific set of skills to retrace Amy's quickly vanishing steps. Meanwhile, Detective Inspector Danquah has her own missing person case in London: the young son of a retired Russian secret service agent who's trying to learn who poisoned his colleague, Alexander Tereshchenko. As the detective begins her search, a body is found in Madrid. And Amy's father may be the next target . . .
The Gold Dagger Award-winning author of A Small Death in Lisbon "demonstrates, as Graham Greene did long ago, that thrillers are the liveliest, most gripping, most thought-provoking literary enterprises going today" ( Los Angeles Times Book Review ).
"Few writers--in any genre--can match Wilson's depth of character and plot or his evocation of place."-- The Boston Globe
Charlie Boxer messed up his family life. First the army, then the police then high-stakes kidnap and recovery, his ex-wife and daughter learnt to live without him as his work took him places no man can come back from unscarred. Trying to rebuild a relationship with Amy, his teenage daughter, hasn't been easy. But Charlie only realises just how wrong things have gone when he finds her empty room and a note: You will never find me. Having spent years working to track down kidnap victims, Charlie knows that sometimes, the missing don't want to be found. And he knows the hell it brings for families - the vanished are neither dead or alive, but simply gone. Worse still, Charlie Boxer knows how quickly a life can fall apart once you're living under the radar. For Charlie, danger has finally come to his front door and to crack the hardest case he's ever worked, it's time to face up to the true meaning of the sins of the father.