ABANDONED. Man returns to the place where he was kidnapped as a child

[Matt]

The story was set in the U.S., and it was contemporary. I believe it was fiction, but it might have had some non-fictional basis.

The main character is a man--a writer if I'm not mistaken--who takes his young son and wife on a long, cross-country drive to go back to the place where he was abducted as a child. He was kidnapped by a couple at a gas station, and they already had a young girl with them, as well. The couple was just heinous; I don't remember the exact reason why they did the kidnapping, but they took the narrator (main character) back to their trailer which I believe was located in a sort of wildlife reserve. They physically abused both of the children, and ultimately made them play a game of Russian roulette in which the young girl died. I don't remember if the narrator escaped by himself or if he was rescued. Before the narrator and his family get to the place where the trailer used to be, he stops inside of a park ranger's office. He realizes that the park ranger is the same man who used to work as an accomplice with the heinous couple, so the two of them engage in a fight over a shotgun and the narrator wins. In the end, he doesn't shoot the park ranger but instead kicks the park ranger's cane/wheelchair (he is disabled), leaving the park ranger struggling on the floor.

I really can't remember anything about the book cover.. so it might have been a short story in an anthology.

[Ann aka Iftcan]

How long ago did you read this Matt?

[Matt]

I would say I read it about 2-3 years ago.

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Matt, are you still looking for this or did you find it?

[Cheryl]

abandoned