Even after 10 years, Simon Fisk still has trouble dealing
with the disappearance of his young daughter and the
subsequent suicide of his wife. His atonement was to quit
his job as a U.S. Marshall and to use his expertise
recovering children taken by their non-custodial parent.
However, Simon has made it a rule not to take stranger
abduction cases, since it reminds him too much of his own
loss.
When the French police request Simon's help after a six-
year-old girl disappears from a Paris hotel, he refuses.
But Simon's involvement in an earlier case in France ended
badly and the police threaten to prosecute if he does not
take this case. Simon has no other choice than to search
for the missing girl.
In a hunt that takes him from France to Poland, Germany,
the Ukraine and finally Belarus, Simon quickly learns trust
is an issue as he encounters thieves, gangsters, crooked
lawyers and corrupt police. With the assistance of Polish
criminal lawyer Ana Staszk, Simon is shocked with what he
discovers and how much it will change his life.
Douglas Corleone's GOOD AS GONE is a compelling
international thriller filled with lots of nasty
characters -- as well as some noble ones. Simon Fisk is an
action-hero with immense abilities who gets the job done
even though he hates to kill people. Plot development
progresses at breakneck speed to a clever resolution.
A former U.S. Marshal, haunted by his own daughter's
disappearance, investigates a child abduction which becomes
a terrifying international chase in a standalone from
Douglas Corleone
Former U.S. Marshal Simon Fisk works as a private
contractor, tracking down and recovering children who were
kidnapped by their own estranged parents. He only has one
rule: he won't touch stranger abduction cases. He's still
haunted by the disappearance of his own daughter when she
was just a child, still unsolved, and stranger kidnappings
hit too close to home.
Until, that is, six–year–old Lindsay Sorkin
disappears from her parents' hotel room in Paris, and the
French police deliver Simon an ultimatum: he can spend years
in a French jail, or he can take the case and recover the
missing girl. Simon sets out in pursuit of Lindsay and the
truth behind her disappearance. But Lindsay's captors did
not leave an easy trail, and following it will take Simon
across the continent, through the ritziest nightclubs and
the seediest back alleys, into a terrifying world of
international intrigue and dark corners of his past he'd
rather leave well alone.
Good as Gone is one magnificent ride with action, empathy, human relationships and taut suspense. The scenes written about the many cities and countries are vivid and well written.The character of the former US Marshall tormented about his kidnapped daughter and the death of his wife and his new career of helping find children kidnapped by a family member is so well written; you will be pulling for him to accomplish his current quest Hopefully this character will be explored again in another novel! This is one fast ride! (Kurt Noack 8:21pm June 12, 2013)
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