It''s every parent''s worst nightmare...tephanie Harker is
travelling through the security gates at O''Hare airport, on her way
to an idyllic holiday. Five-year-old Jimmy goes through the metal
detector ahead of her. But then, in panic and disbelief, Stephanie
watches as a uniformed agent leads her boy away - and she''s stuck
the other side of Security, hysterical with worry. The authorities,
unaware of Jimmy''s existence, just see a woman behaving
erratically; Stephanie is brutally wrestled to the ground and
blasted with a taser gun to restrain her. And by the time she can
tell them what has happened, Jimmy is long gone. But as Stephanie
tells her story to the FBI, it becomes clear that everything is not
as it seems with this seeminglynormal family. What is Jimmy''s
background? Why would someone want to abduct him? And, with time
running out, how can Stephanie get him back? A breathtakingly rich
and gripping psychological thriller, The Vanishing Point is Val
McDermid''s most accomplished standalone novel to date, a work of
haunting brilliance.
關於作者:
Val McDermid is the author of 22 bestselling novels, which
have been translated into 30 languages, and have sold over 10
million copies. She has won many awards internationally, including
the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year and the LA
Times Book of the Year Award. She was inducted into the ITV3 Crime
Thriller Awards Hall of Fame in 2009