内容説明
A twelve-year-old girl and her younger brother go on the run in the woods of northern Idaho, pursued by four men they have just watched commit murder, four men who know exactly who William and Annie are, and where their desperate mother is waiting for news of her children's fate.The kids soon find they don't know whom they can trust among their L.A. transplant neighbours, including hundreds of retired Southern California cops who've given the area it's nickname: 'Blue Heaven." As a group of dirty cops spearhead the search for William and Annie, one false move will stop these children from ever finding their way home.With true-to-life, unforgettable characters, Ox has created a thriller that delves into issues close to the heart: the pervasiveness of greed, the banality of evil, and the truth about what constitutes a family. In a story where unlikely heroes find themselves at the cross-roads of duty and courage, "Blue Heaven" delivers twists and turns until its last breathtaking page.
From Publishers Weekly
At the start of this overly complicated thriller from bestseller Box, his first stand-alone, siblings Annie and William Taylor, ages 12 and 10, witness a gruesome murder in the woods outside the small Idaho town of Kootenai Bay, nicknamed Blue Heaven for its abundance of retired LAPD officers. Annie and William make a run for it after they're spotted by the killers, a group of crooked LAPD cops who retired to Idaho eight years earlier after pulling a complicated heist in California that left a man dead. Rancher Jess Rawlins becomes the children's only hope of survival after they take refuge in his barn. Jess must stay one step ahead of the killers, who have volunteered to help the local authorities investigate the children's disappearance. Annie and William's mother is frantic, as the scheming officers try to persuade her the children are gone for good. A subplot involving a retired California detective pursuing the original robbery case adds too many extra characters and undercuts the suspense. Readers expecting the same brisk story lines as the author's Joe Pickett crime novels (
Free Fire, etc.) will be disappointed.
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