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Throwback
Cole Clayfield is called a throwback by those who know him. He's a Kentucky mountain man lost in modern times, more comfortable alone in his isolated cabin, hunting with his dogs, or teaching his 10-year-old granddaughter Shelby how to understand nature and respect the earth. Since the death of his beloved wife, though, Clayfield hasn't felt much of anything, except sorry for himself.
When Shelby is suddenly kidnapped at gunpoint by a sociopath named Darnell, all of Clayfield's tracking instincts are shocked into action. But Shelby's other grandfather,a rich lawyer and political wheeler-dealer named Stockton, has his own ideas. Both men are desperate to get their granddaughter back alive, but each has very different ways of going about it.
While Stockton uses his money and hidden influence to trace Darnell's mad, murderous scramble across three states with Shelby and Darnell's girlfriend Hayley, Clayfield scales the rough mountain trail and walks the mean city streets himself, trying to trap Darnell where he least expects it. Only Clayfield is a little older than he used to be, and Darnell is as dangerous and as sharp as they come. He never hesitates to shoot first, and he doesn't care who gets in the way as long as he gets out.
As the pressure surrounding Darnell mounts and the search for the trio grows more violent and intense, Clayfield inches closer and closer to the madman who is holding his granddaughter - praying that it's not too late to save her, and that Darnell pays with his life's blood for what he's done.
When Shelby is suddenly kidnapped at gunpoint by a sociopath named Darnell, all of Clayfield's tracking instincts are shocked into action. But Shelby's other grandfather,a rich lawyer and political wheeler-dealer named Stockton, has his own ideas. Both men are desperate to get their granddaughter back alive, but each has very different ways of going about it.
While Stockton uses his money and hidden influence to trace Darnell's mad, murderous scramble across three states with Shelby and Darnell's girlfriend Hayley, Clayfield scales the rough mountain trail and walks the mean city streets himself, trying to trap Darnell where he least expects it. Only Clayfield is a little older than he used to be, and Darnell is as dangerous and as sharp as they come. He never hesitates to shoot first, and he doesn't care who gets in the way as long as he gets out.
As the pressure surrounding Darnell mounts and the search for the trio grows more violent and intense, Clayfield inches closer and closer to the madman who is holding his granddaughter - praying that it's not too late to save her, and that Darnell pays with his life's blood for what he's done.
310 pages, Hardcover
First published August 1, 1996
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June 19, 2016
A child kidnapped by a prisoner as he escapes, a man who will do anything, to anyone, to remain free. Two grandfathers who will do anything they can to get her back unharmed. One is wealthy and powerful, in their corner of the world, with tentacles that reach well beyond. The other is a "throwback," a Kentucky mountain man who lives by the ways of an era long gone. Both make bad moves, mistakes. Each knows the other is screwing up the possibility for their granddaughter to survive.
This is a suspenseful novel, with plenty of bodies and nail-biting between its covers. However, the beauty of the mountains and of love, portrayed so eloquently by Strunk, take this book well beyond the thriller genre. Despite the danger and the blood, this is a beautiful book.
This is a suspenseful novel, with plenty of bodies and nail-biting between its covers. However, the beauty of the mountains and of love, portrayed so eloquently by Strunk, take this book well beyond the thriller genre. Despite the danger and the blood, this is a beautiful book.
October 13, 2014
A decent, fairly taut action thriller about the abduction of a little girl by a psychopath criminal which forces her mountain man/ tracker of a grandfather to go looking for her when the law fails to find her.
Though marred by heavy-handed lectures on morality and an endless lamenting of the lifestyle of a bygone era, some good cliffhanger scenes, a harrowing battle for survival in the woods after suffering serious injuries, and a satisfying ending raise this thriller somewhat above the countless others on the shelves.
Though marred by heavy-handed lectures on morality and an endless lamenting of the lifestyle of a bygone era, some good cliffhanger scenes, a harrowing battle for survival in the woods after suffering serious injuries, and a satisfying ending raise this thriller somewhat above the countless others on the shelves.
January 22, 2009
I randomly picked this book out at the library and was pleasantly surprised.
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