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Missing

Missing

by SamHawken (Author)

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    Paperback 2014

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Synopsis

Jack Searle is an American widower, bringing up his two stepdaughters Lidia and Marina alone in the border town of Laredo after losing his wife to cancer. Jack often takes the girls to visit their Mexican family over the border in Nuevo Laredo. Marina, the elder sister, persuades him to let her go there without him one night, to attend a concert with her cousin Patricia. Jack wants to say no - Nuevo Laredo is a very dangerous city, controlled by drug cartels and devastated by violence and corruption. But eventually he agrees - she's growing up and he has to let her have some independence. Marina and Patricia head out to the concert, but they never come back. A frantic hunt for them begins, with Jack leading the way. But this is Nuevo Laredo, and girls go missing all the time here. They're lucky to find that a good cop - Gonzalo Soler - is leading their investigation, but soon the whole police force is suspended due to endemic corruption. The army take over the city, and finding the missing girls is not their priority. To survive this nightmare and have any chance of finding Marina and Patricia, Jack and Gonzalo must take the law into their own hands. Their efforts to find the girls become more and more dangerous, and they uncover truths about the city of Nuevo Laredo that neither one of them ever wanted to face.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 400
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Published: 04 Sep 2014
ISBN 10: 1846689422
ISBN 13: 9781846689420
Book Overview: A tough, terrifying thriller depicting one man's fight to rescue two young girls from the cartels in the lawless chaos of a Mexican border town. Shortlisted for the 2015 CWA Gold Dagger and the 2015 Ian Fleming Steel Dagger

Media Reviews
Hawken trades in gritty realism * Irish Times *
Praise for Tequila Sunset Haunting ... recalls the best of James M. Cain * Financial Times *
A grim tale of foreboding ... explosive -- Alastair Mabbott * Herald *
A fascinating, tense and engaging read that draws you into the lives of the characters with consummate ease until you reluctantly turn that final page * Crimesquad *
Raw and gritty * Shortlist *
The novel is a thrilling ride, but it also makes you appreciate the seriousness behind it -- David Hebblethwaite * We Love This Book *
This brilliantly written, dramatic but vicious novel will keep you on tenterhooks all the way to the end...Tequila Sunset is realistically composed, deftly put together and drenched with violence and aggression that would make any sane person run for their life...Hopefully a book that will become a classic and will be read for years to come. Well worth losing sleep over -- Ayo Onatade * Shorts *
A fast moving and well plotted story...Hawken continues to deliver -- Robin Leggett * Bookbag *
Interesting, refreshing and engrossing -- Francesca Peak * Latino Life *
Unsettlingly tense -- Howard Calvert * Shortlist *
A dark, atmospheric book that reads like a draft for a Quentin Tarantino film -- Rob Dex * Press Association *
A gripping, stylish thriller * Catholic Herald *
This is a dark and gritty read that excels in its evocative depiction of the hot and dusty town of Nuevo Laredo, bristling with the threat of violence. Not for the faint-hearted. * Canberra Times, Australia *
Brutal and believable -- Simon Copeland * The Sun *
Hawken's prose is concrete, unadorned, brusquely vigorous, a form of noir minimalism. * The Australian *
Author Bio
Sam Hawken is the best-selling and Crime Writers' Association Dagger-nominated author ofThe Dead Women of Juarez, Tequila Sunset and Missing, collectively known as The Borderland Trilogy. He makes his home in Maryland with his wife and son.