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When Will and Karen Jennings—a growing medical practice owner and a designer architect—welcome their daughter Abby into a dream home, their perfect life is shattered by John Hickey, a genius kidnapper who has executed five flawless abductions. Hickey hunts the Jennings family to exact a personal vengeance, tightening his web within a single day. Will, Karen, and Abby must race against the clock to outwit Hickey’s calculated terror and protect their lives before the window closes.
First publish date: 2000
Genre: Suspense/Action Suspense
Authors: Greg Iles
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