“Irene must be on top of her game or she’ll be off the case – permanently.
Irene is a professional spy for the mysterious Library, which harvests fiction from different realities. and along with her enigmatic assistant Kai, she’s posted to an alternative London. Their mission – to retrieve a dangerous book. But when they arrive, it’s already been stolen. London’s underground factions seem prepared to fight to the very death to find her book.
Adding to the jeopardy, this world is chaos-infested – the laws of nature bent to allow supernatural creatures and unpredictable magic. Irene’s new assistant is also hiding secrets of his own. And soon, she’s up to her eyebrows in a heady mix of danger, clues and secret societies. Yet failure is not an option – the nature of reality itself is at stake."
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One of some books I have read and am reading which are about books, libraries, or writing. I like the skill Irene has that she “can use the Language to, in blunt terms, make things do things." She says, “I can’t change a door from a locked door to an open door, but I can make the lock on a door open itself." It’s very exciting to read the part when Irene uses the Language to save herself.
“When the first bullet hit my chest, I thought of my daughter…
Marc Seidman awakens to find himself in an ICU, hooked up to an IV, his head swathed in bandages. Twelve days earlier, he’s had an enviable life as a successful surgeon, living in a peaceful suburban neighborhood with his beautiful wife and a baby he adored. Now he lies in a hospital bed, shot by an unseen assailant. His wife has been killed, and his six-month-old daughter, Tara, has vanished. But just when his world seems forever shattered, something arrives to give Marc new hope: a ransom note.
We are watching, if you contact the authorities, you will never see your daughter again. There will be no second chance.
The note is chilling, but Marc sees only one thing – he has the chance to save his daughter. He can’t talk to the police or the FBI. He doesn’t know whom he can trust. And now the authorities are closing in on a new suspect: Marc himself. Mired in a deepening quicksand of deception and deadly secrets – about his wife, about an old love he’s never forgotten, and about his own past – he clings to one unwavering vow: to bring home Tara, at any cost."
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Kidnapping; story told from the victim’s point of view. Not my favorite kind of books.
When Tess Beckett married Jim, a well-respected and decorated cop, she thought all her dreams had come true. But within two years the vows she made were shattered as her husband was charged with murdering ten women.
When Jim behind bars, Tess feels certain that she can move on with her life. Until she learns that Jim has escaped from prison.
As a frantic and rigorous manhunt gets underway in four states, Tess knows that it’s only a matter of time until her perfect husband tracks her down for the revenge he is sure to demand. And when he finds her, she must be ready. Because this time she’s determined that their separation will be ’till death do us part’."