Lies
Wells Earl Draughon
(Reviewer - Rebecca Brown)
2003 iUniverse
ISBN: 0595288332

When the police fail, a mother searches for her kidnapped daughter, with life-threatening results.

A chance event makes her suspect that she & the other members of the local chapter are being used & that the people they are abducting & interrogating may not be kidnappers at all.

Linda begins trying to uncover what the organization is really about; & when one of the members does not come back from an assignment, she realizes that her suspicions may cost her life.

A nation-wide group promises bereaved & guilt-ridden parents they will return their vanished children whose cases the police have given up on.

Not so the parents. When they are approached by a seemingly charming & dedicated woman, they gladly accept her invitation to attend the secretive local chapter meetings where other parents are desperately hoping to retrieve their lost children.

At Linda's first attendance, the woman brings in one of the lost children, & all the parents are elated, reaffirming their allegiance to the group & dedicating themselves to the training of surveillance & snatching of the people the two leaders say are child abductors.

Linda isn't so sure. Something is hinky about the whole setup, & when she hears the woman talking at a checkout counter of a supermarket, in an entirely different accent, Linda cannot ignore her doubts.

That's when she puts to use her newly-acquired training to stalk the two group leaders. When they insist it's her turn for the next abduction, Linda not only must go along, she must witness the leaders' truly horrific methods of extracting information.

Linda realizes this group's intentions are not what they seem. For all she knows, they're the ones who stole her daughter, right out of her bed, under the nose of her babysitter.

Lies is a tightly wound tale of terror, quite well written, its pages filled with tension, passion, action & fear, & the resolution is swift & riveting.

Well done!

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