The Chain
by Adrian McKinty
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0733642519
- ISBN 13
- 9780733642517
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About This Item
Hachette, Australia, 2019. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Trade Paperback. 357 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Hachette, Australia, 2019. *** CONDITION: This book is in near fine condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing. Corners of covers are lightly bumped. Spine is uncreased. . Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: The morning starts like any other. Rachel Klein drops her daughter, Kylie, at the bus stop and heads into her day. But then a phone call changes everything. A woman has Kylie bound and gagged in her back seat, and the only way Rachel will ever see her again is if she pays a ransom - and kidnaps another child. The caller is a mother herself, whose son has also been abducted, and if Rachel doesn't do exactly as she's told, both children will die. Rachel is now part of a terrifying scheme - The Chain. The rules are simple: find the money, find your victim, and then commit a horrible act you'd have thought yourself incapable of just 24 hours ago. Rachel is an ordinary woman, but over the coming days she will be pushed beyond ordinary limits to save her daughter. What the anonymous masterminds behind The Chain know is that parents will do anything for their children. But what they don't know is that they may have met their match. Can Rachel be the one person to finally break The Chain? *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Crime; ISBN/EAN: 9780733642517. Inventory No: 20110369.. 9780733642517
Reviews
On Aug 6 2019, CloggieDownunder said:
4.5★s
The Chain is the fifth stand-alone novel by award-winning Irish-born author, Adrian McKinty. What would turn an intelligent law-abiding mother into a gun-toting kidnapper? Divorcee Rachel Klein is finds out when her thirteen-year-old daughter, Kylie is snatched from the bus stop. She is told:
"You have to select a target and hold one of that persons loved ones until the target pays the ransom and kidnaps someone in turn. You are going to have to make this exact phone call to whoever you select. What I'm doing to you is what you are going to do to your target. As soon as you carry out your kidnapping and pay the money, my son will be released. As soon as your target kidnaps someone and pays the ransom, your daughter will be released. It's that simple. That's how The Chain works and goes on forever."
Rachel can't understand why she has been targeted, but she soon realises: "Selecting the right target is very important. You have to choose the right kind of victim with the right kind of family, people who won't lose their shit and go to the cops and who have both the money to pay and the emotional wherewithal to carry out a kidnapping to get their child back."
She is warned of the reach of The Chain and the "blowback" that will occur for her if she breaks The Chain. Documented examples are given of people who didn't heed this warning. But of course, Rachel's first priority is to get Kylie back, and she will do whatever she must. But even if she succeeds, life will never be the same for them. Will she then let sleeping dogs lie? Or will she risk everything?
Once disbelief is suspended (as Rachel had to do) the reader finds themselves engrossed in a page-turner that does not let up until the heart-stopping climax. McKinty's plot is brilliantly original and his characters are fairly believable; most of the females are quite resourceful and far from helpless. The dialogue is natural and there's occasionally some pretty dark humour to relieve the building tension.
This novel certainly serves as a timely warning to those who feel compelled to document every tiny moment of their lives on social media. McKinty enjoys a joke by including a cute little speech in chapter 51 that will have the majority of readers turning immediately to the last chapter. A riveting read.
This unbiased review is from a copy provided by Hachette Australia
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Details
- Bookseller
- Manyhills Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20110369
- Title
- The Chain
- Author
- Adrian McKinty
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0733642519
- ISBN 13
- 9780733642517
- Publisher
- Hachette
- Place of Publication
- Australia
- Date Published
- 2019
- Keywords
- BZDB5 Fiction; The Chain
- Bookseller catalogs
- Crime; Fiction;
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