You Will Never Find Me

ISBN: 1609452542

Author: Wilson, Robert

Condition: Used

A father follows his runaway daughter into a world of crime and espionage in this thriller by one of the more sophisticated writers in his field (Kirkus Reviews).Amy Boxer, the precocious, frustrated daughter of kidnap consultant Charles Boxer and DI Mercy Danquah, has decided on drastic action: shes leaving home. But Amy cant just walk out. First she goads her parents with a challenge: YOU WILL NEVER FIND ME.Amys destination: Madrid. Here, in the strobe lights of bars and crowded dance clubs, shes anonymous and untraceable. Except to a volatile, unpredictable leader in the citys drug trade, the man known only as El Osito.Boxer will use his very specific set of skills to retrace Amys quickly vanishing steps. Meanwhile, Detective Inspector Danquah has her own missing person case in London: the young son of a retired Russian secret service agent whos trying to learn who poisoned his colleague, Alexander Tereshchenko. As the detective begins her search, a body is found in Madrid. And Amys father may be the next target . . .The Gold Dagger Award-winning author of A Small Death in Lisbon demonstrates, as Graham Greene did long ago, that thrillers are the liveliest, most gripping, most thought-provoking literary enterprises going today (Los Angeles Times Book Review).Few writers-in any genre-can match Wilsons depth of character and plot or his evocation of place.-The Boston Globe