I know better. But I believed an author recommendation of this book. Obviously, I did not enjoy it. I thought it was a thriller. And it could have been. But it takes 150 pages to get to anything thrilling. First are introductions to the characters and the beginnings of their stories. There’s a TV news woman who keeps coming in handy to the police and gets herself involved in the investigation. There’s a guy trying to bully his way into the action. There’s the beautiful college girl who is kidnapped by a guy who is mad at the girl’s father; the kidnapper was a Marine and in Iraq with a guy whose sister was accidentally killed by the girl’s father. (HUH?) And we have our good guy Mike, a friend of the kidnapper, who tries to make things right.

When the book finally gets to thrills, it’s only thrilling off and on; other chapters containing boring stories are stuck in here and there.

The end felt like “the end”; it leaves lots of questions and is as if the book is missing a final chapter.

I won this book through the librarything.com Early Reviewers program.