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Whit Gentry
Category:
Action/Thriller
Publisher: Whit Gentry
ISBN-10: B008KC67JI
Type: Fiction
Pages: 376
Copyright: Feb 14, 2014
Price: $2.99 (eBook)
A cryptic, mind-boggling mystery awaits readers as this saga unfolds a bitter sweet expression of Revenge
The best description of the story is its believable—characters, actions, and locations
First story of The Jake Littleton Series. Reviews available on Amazon.
A cryptic, mind-boggling mystery awaits readers as this saga unfolds a bitter sweet expression of Revenge
The best description of the story is its believable—characters, actions, and locations. The story starts fast and quickly explodes into multiple stories as the kidnapper maintains his captives, the FBI conducts their task force investigations, and the lives of the husbands and wives are exposed. As the stories progress, action escalates and leaves the reader little time to catch a breath. The twists are stimulating and the conclusion is unforeseen and rewarding because revenge has no statute of limitations.
The affluent estate community of Evergreen, Colorado, a suburb of Denver, is stunned to discover four women have been kidnapped. The Evergreen Police chief and the Sheriff of Boulder County willingly gave the case to the Denver FBI office. Three months passes with no ransom requests, no bodies, nor any specific suspect, the FBI team theorizes the women are no longer alive based on history of other cases.
The four women are friends and neighbors: one in her early forties and a mother of two preteen girls; one married to a doctor and a successful business woman; one a princess, unhappily married, and a social butterfly, the fourth woman is the matriarch, a closet alcoholic, married to a successful attorney who plans to be the next US Senator for Colorado. Months into their abduction with no beauty salons, nail salons, withdrawal from children, and alcohol, the women’s true personalities begin to blossom.
The twenty-eight-year-old kidnapper questions who will be changed the most, him or his captives. He has promised to release them in seven months, allowing them to return to their lives with new perspectives and tell the FBI what happened. But will he keep his word? Moreover, what could be the driving reason behind the women’s kidnapping?
Revenge is evident, but by whom and for what reason?
Excerpt
CHAPTER 1
Jake reached up to take the freshly printed sheet from the printer tray. He was nervous and anxious because in fifteen hours he would be in the Beechman’s house kidnapping four women.
He was frustrated with himself. This was the third time he had printed the simple rules of the house. He started to read.
House Rules
1. You have been kidnapped and are being held for ransom.
2. Now for the bad news, you will be here for the next seven months; if the ransom is paid you will go home alive. Do as I say, you will go home better than you came.
3. You will be feed 3 times a day and shower once a day if you wish.
4. Stop up the commode and you live with the mess, I will not clean it up.
5. Red light on, you sit in chair.
6. Do not move when I am in the room.
7. Do exactly what I tell you to do, NO QUESTIONS.
8. Food will be put in the red box, everything must be put back in the box, something missing from the box, I will not come in, and you will get no food until everything is in the red box.
Don’t be stupid, think about a year from now, this will just be a memory.
You can make this seven months bearable, miserable, or your last---YOUR CHOICE!
He read the rules a second time, and it still didn’t please him, but his frustration was not going to allow him to revise them again. He put the sheet back in the printer and made three more copies. The rules would be glued to the wall in each of the ladies rooms.
Jake picked up the four sheets, the glue, and left the office/utility room. Stepping into the hall, he paused to admire his last six months work. Each of the ladies would have her own room. The only live person they would see or communicate with over the next seven months would be him. He wondered who would change the most, him or them.
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