Dead silence / Randy Wayne White.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2009.Description: x, 354 p. : map ; 24 cmISBN:- 0399155406
- 9780399155406
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Vol info | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | Fiction | White, Randy Wayne | DF 16 | Available | 33111005574781 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Imagine the worst that can happen. Then imagine again. The stunning new Doc Ford novel by the New York TimesÂbestselling author. Winter in New York City: Amid sleet and snow, Doc Ford is at the Explorers Club with his new friend, former (and maybe current) British agent Sir James Montbard, researching a jungle expedition and awaiting the arrival of an attractive U.S. senator with whom Ford has become more than friendly. Her car pulls up, she starts to get outÂand the unthinkable happens: an abduction attempt right before FordÂs eyes. Ford engages, managing to save the senator, but the companion in her car is not so lucky. A fourteen- year-old Minnesota boy, in New York as the prize for an essay-writing contest, he is snatched and vanishesÂdead, authorities fear, until they receive the kidnappers ultimatum. Ford goes on the hunt, an odyssey that brings him first to Long Island, then to Florida, but if what happened before was unthinkable, itÂs nothing compared with what he discovers. The boyÂs captors have a definite agenda, and to make sure he isnÂt rescued before their thirty-six-hour deadline is up, theyÂve put him someplace theyÂre sure no one will find him: theyÂve buried him alive. But thereÂs something about the boy his captors do not know. He has a past, as do Doc Ford and many of the other key players in these extraordinary events. And before those thirty-six hours are over, all those pasts will catch up to the present with catastrophic results. Randy Wayne WhiteÂs novels have always won praise for their remarkable imagination, intrigue, and some of the best characters in suspense fiction. Nothing, however, will prepare his readers for the remarkable twists and revelations of Dead Silence.
Map on endpapers.
Winter in New York City: Doc Ford is at the Explorers Club. He foils an abduction attempt on a senator, but the companion in her car is snatched-- and buried alive, leading to a series of remarkable twists and revelations.