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The Wrong Hostage (Mass Market Paperback)

by Elizabeth Lowell (Author)

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Mass Market Paperback: 496 pages
Publisher: Avon; Reprint edition (April 4 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0060829834
ISBN-13: 978-0060829834
Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.4 x 3.3 cm
Shipping Weight: 250 g

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A mother's worst nightmare of an endangered child is just one breathless element of Lowell's latest romantic thriller (after Always Time to Die). Newly divorced California judge Grace Silva discovers her billionaire ex-husband, Ted Franklin, is missing, after she's summoned to the exclusive Mexican prep school where her 15-year-old computer whiz son, Lane, is being held hostage. Ted has crossed Hector Rivas Osuna, the ruthless kingpin of the most violent crime family in Tijuana, and Grace learns that Lane will be killed if she doesn't turn over the millions Ted has stolen from Osuna. She seeks the help of Joe Faroe, an ex who predated Ted and who may be Lane's biological father; Joe works for an elite private investigation firm. Lowell's convincing depiction of the Mexican drug trade illuminates the dangerous intersection of her characters' personal lives with international politics and organized crime. Events unfold in a maze of talk and double-talk, but the payoff is solid as the family reunites, finding that both love and the price of freedom are nonnegotiable. (June)
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When federal judge Grace Silva's teenage son Lane Franklin is taken hostage, Grace knows the only man who can help her is Joe Faroe, the very same man Grace spent a passionate weekend with 16 years ago before she helped send him to jail. Lane is being held prisoner in All Saints School, a private Catholic high school in Mexico, by drug lord Hector Rivas Osuna, the "Butcher of Tijuana," who is demanding the return of money "stolen" from him by his former business associate and Grace's ex-husband, Ted Franklin. The problem is that Grace has not heard from Ted in more than three weeks, and time is running out for Lane. With no other options available, Grace contacts Joe, a former kidnap specialist, hoping he can be persuaded to forget their past differences and rescue Lane before it is too late. A New York Times best-selling author, Lowell brilliantly mingles danger, deception, and desire to create a captivating story that is edgy, sexy, and completely satisfying. With its superbly defined protagonists and high-octane, white-knuckle plot, this is romantic suspense at its best. John Charles
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4.0 out of 5 stars CHILLING WORD PORTRAITS AND REALISTIC DIALOGUE, Jul 4 2006

By	Gail Cooke (TX, USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Wrong Hostage (Hardcover)

Grace Silva is quite a woman - attractive, intelligent and successful. Little in her background indicated that she would one day be a respected district judge in line for an appointment on the federal appeals court. The press calls her Hispanic, but she considers herself to be "the perfect all-American mongrel, " a blend of Irish, and Kazakh. She had been raised by her grandmother in a Santa Ana barrio - she left and never looked back.

"She'd spent her adult life forgetting the gutter, ignoring it, not looking back, climbing high and fast to a place where the air was clean and the nights were safe and women didn't have to be arm candy to be allowed into the halls of power."

But, now she's going to have to crawl back into that gutter in order to save her son's life. Fifteen-year-old Lane is a student at All Saints School, a private high school on the beach a short way from Ensenada. He's a good kid, smart, athletic but he's been sent here as a reprimand for turning his Fs into Bs on the school's computer, and a few other online pranks.

When Grace receives a call from Carlos Calderon telling her she has to be in Ensenada in three hours, something about Lane, she doesn't hesitate. In too short a time she realizes that Calderon, one of the most powerful men in all of Mexico, is acting for someone else - Hector Rivas Osuna who heads a vicious crime family in Tijuana.

Lane is, in effect, a prisoner at the school and will be killed unless Grace returns the millions of dollars stolen form Osuna by her former husband, Ted. She has two days to accomplish this and Ted is nowhere to be found. Pushed to the breaking point, Grace goes to Joe Faroe, a former lover who may be the boy's biological father. Once a kidnaping specialist for a Manhattan based firm, he knows his way around the underworld.

Lowell has crafted a page-turner spiced with danger and romance. Thanks to her husband who covered immigration and crime for the L.A. times, the author has a knowledge of the drug trafficking world as well those who live and die in it. She has painted chilling word portraits and penned realistic dialogue. Those who like their thrillers ringing with authenticity will relish The Wrong Hostage.

- Gail Cooke

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