Introduction

There are twenty-five elite kidnap and ransom (K&R) specialists in the world. Only one is a woman: Thea Paris. And she's the best in the business.

Twenty years ago, a terrified young boy was abducted in the middle of the night by masked intruders while his sister watched, paralyzed with fear. Returned after a harrowing nine months with his captors, Thea's brother has never been the same.

This life-shattering experience drove Thea to become what she is today: a world-class freedom broker. Most hostage-recovery work is done at the negotiation table, but when diplomacy fails, Thea leads Quantum Security International's black-ops team on highly sensitive rescue missions to political hot spots around the globe.

Her childhood nightmare resurfaces when her oil magnate father, Christos Paris, is snatched from his yacht off Santorini on his sixtieth birthday, days away from the biggest deal of his career. The brutal kidnappers left the entire crew slaughtered in their wake, but strangely, there are no ransom demands, no political appeals, no prisoner release requests-just obscure and foreboding texts written in Latin sent from burner phones.

Knowing the survival window for kidnap victims is small, Thea throws herself into the most urgent and challenging rescue mission of her life-but will she be able to prevent this kidnapping from destroying her family for good?

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Discussion Questions

Do you think Thea feels overly responsible for her brother Nikos’ kidnapping? Why do you think she can’t forgive herself for this?

What do you think of Thea’s unconditional love for her brother, Nikos, even when she is aware of her father’s reservations about his son? Is she ‘blind’ to his faults? Or is it guilt?

Thea is also in the middle of a hostile relationship between Nikos and Rif. What do you make of this pattern of being between people who don’t get along? Do you think it has contributed to her need to be a K&R professional?

Is Nikos’ generosity towards orphans in war ton countries born out of a core goodness? Or only because he was in a similar situation himself when kidnapped.

What do you make of Thea’s prickliness towards Rif? What do you think holds her back from fully embracing a friendship (or more?) with him?

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