The Vanishing Point

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Little, Brown
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2012
Edition: First Edition

Description: 434 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: The new stand-alone from the queen of the psychological thriller.Its every parents worst nightmare...Stephanie Harker is travelling through the security gates at OHare airport, on her way to an idyllic holiday. Five-year-old Jimmy goes through the metal detector ahead of her. But then, in panic and disbelief, Stephanie watches as a uniformed agent leads her boy away - and shes stuck on the other side of Security, hysterical with worry.The authorities, unaware of Jimmys existence, just see a woman behaving erratically; Stephanie is brutally wrestled to the ground and blasted with a taser gun to restrain her. And by the time she can tell them what has happened, Jimmy is long gone.But as Stephanie tells her story to the FBI, it becomes clear that everything is not as it seems with this seemingly normal family. What is Jimmys background Why would someone want to abduct him And, with time running out, how can Stephanie get him backA breathtakingly rich and gripping psychological thriller, THE VANISHING POINT is Val McDermids most accomplished stand-alone novel to date, a work of haunting brilliance.

ISBN: 9781408703229