What would you do if your daughter was kidnapped and given only a week to live?
Lauren Pennington is celebrating her junior year abroad when life comes to a screeching halt. At Munich’s Hofbräuhaus, she engages in an innocent flirtation with a charming stranger for the length of a drink. Drink finished, Lauren leaves—only to be snatched from the streets and thrown into an unmarked van.
Officially, Aidan Deveraux is a communications expert for one of the largest financial firms in the world. In his secret life, the former Marine heads the Zermatt Group, a covert team of military and spy agency operatives that search the data stream for troubling events in an increasingly troubled world. When his artificial intelligence system detects Lauren’s kidnapping, Aidan immediately sees the bigger picture.
Silicon Valley: Lauren’s father, Vance Pennington, is about to launch a ground-breaking technology with his company NanoUSA—a technology that the Chinese are desperate for. No sooner does Aidan arrive on Vance’s doorstep to explain the situation than the father receives a chilling text message: hand over the technology or Lauren will be dead in a week.
In a globe-spanning chase, from the beer halls of Germany, to the tech gardens of California, to the skyscrapers of China, and finally the farmlands of Croatia, Aidan’s team cracks levels of high-tech security and complex human mystery with a dogged determination. Drawing in teammates from the Forensic Instincts team (introduced in The Girl Who Disappeared Twice), the Zermatt Group will uncover the Chinese businessmen responsible, find the traitors within NanoUSA who are helping them, and save Lauren from a brutal death.
Book Details:
Genre: Suspense Thriller Published by: Bonnie Meadow Publishing Publication Date: March 19th 2019 Number of Pages: 384 ISBN: 1682320294 (ISBN13: 9781682320297) Series: Forensic Instincts, Zermatt Group Purchase Links:Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Goodreads
Review
You have: Seven days to comply. You will: turn over details of your manufacturing technology. You won’t: contact the police, the FBI or make any changes in your routine. You should: wait for our instructions. You must: do everything we ask or your daughter will be dead in a week.
As a parent, you know life is about to be turned upside down when you get such a message.
Lauren Pennington, doing her junior year at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich is enjoying her life as it’s semester break. She has always wanted to travel Europe but things take a wrong turn when she is kidnapped. Aiden (former marine captain) working with Zematt group to find Lauren’s kidnappers.
MY THOUGHTS I love this book from the beginning to the end. Probably the reason I was late for work an entire week cause I was sleeping late at night. The thing is that once you start reading it’s hard to put it down. For some reason I kept on imagining myself as Vance Pennington(Lauren’s father) and put myself in his shoes. For some reason Andrea Kane made me relate to this book in so many way. I gave this book a 5/5 simply because I thoroughly enjoyed from start to finish. I highly recommend this book even if you are not into suspense/thriller but I bet you you’re going to love this book. I can’t wait for more from Andrea Kane
Andrea Kane is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of twenty-nine novels, including fifteen psychological thrillers and fourteen historical romantic suspense titles. With her signature style, Kane creates unforgettable characters and confronts them with life-threatening danger. As a master of suspense, she weaves them into exciting, carefully-researched stories, pushing them to the edge—and keeping her readers up all night.
Kane’s first contemporary suspense thriller, Run for Your Life, became an instant New York Times bestseller. She followed with a string of bestselling psychological thrillers including No Way Out, Twisted, and Drawn in Blood.
Her latest in the highly successful Forensic Instincts series, Dead in a Week, adds the Zermatt Group into the mix—a covert team of former military and spy agency operatives. With a week to save a young woman from ruthless kidnappers, this globe-spanning chase, from the beerhalls of Germany, to the tech gardens of California, to the skyscrapers of China, and finally the farmlands of Croatia will keep readers guessing until the very end. The first showcase of Forensic Instincts’ talents came with the New York Times bestseller, The Girl Who Disappeared Twice, followed by The Line Between Here and Gone, The Stranger You Know, The Silence that Speaks, The Murder That Never Was, and A Face to Die For.
Kane’s beloved historical romantic suspense novels include My Heart’s Desire, Samantha, Echoes in the Mist, and Wishes in the Wind.
With a worldwide following of passionate readers, her books have been published in more than twenty languages.
Kane lives in New Jersey with her husband and family. She’s an avid crossword puzzle solver and a diehard Yankees fan. Otherwise, she’s either writing or playing with her Pomeranian, Mischief, who does his best to keep her from writing.
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I agree with you since I also had a hard time putting it down!!!