A beautiful woman is kidnapped, and a chilling ransom demand is sent to her wealthy husband. FBI agent Andie Henning is up against a unique breed of serial kidnapper. Enter Jack Swyteck. He has a new girlfriend, and life is good-until Mia Salazar goes missing. Then the bottom falls out. Jack finds out his lover is married. Worse, her rich husband gets a ransom demand that pegs Mia as the kidnapper's next victim. Worst of all, her husband knows about her affair with Jack, and he decides to pay the kidnapper exactly what his cheating wife is worth: nothing. Throughout, nothing is what it seems, and Jack is in for a twisty ride if he's to find the madman before someone else dies.
The only problem apparent in Grippando's latest is in the writing, not the reading. Nick Sullivan contributes a smooth delivery of a contrived plot and pedestrian dialogue. A serial kidnapper is at work, and his ransom demand is "pay what she's worth." If the ransom payment fails to meet the kidnapper's expectations, the victim is killed. Criminal Defense Lawyer Jack Switeck begins a search for his girlfriend, the latest to be abducted. Sullivan is adept at transforming a story with weak dialogue into a strong presentation. He is at his finest when he's called on to voice the several Latin characters. He has the accents down perfectly. A.L.H. (c) AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine
About the Author
James Grippando is the bestselling author of Hear No Evil, Last to Die (both available as Sound Library® audiobooks), Beyond Suspicion, A King's Ransom, Under Cover of Darkness, Found Money, The Abduction, The Informant, and The Pardon. He lives in Florida, where he was a trial lawyer for twelve years.
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