Waterstones The Vanishing Point
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Price: £9.99
Brand: Waterstones
Description: Stephanie Harker is travelling through security at O' Hare airport with five-year-old Jimmy. But in a moment, everything changes. In disbelief, Stephanie watches as a uniformed agent leads her boy away - and she's stuck the other side of the gates, hysterical with worry. The authorities, unaware of Jimmy's existence, just see a woman behaving erratically; Stephanie is wrestled to the ground and blasted with a taser gun. By the time she can tell them what has happened, Jimmy is long gone. But as Stephanie tells her story to the FBI, it becomes clear that everything is not as it seems. There are many potential suspects for this abduction. With time rapidly running out, how can Stephanie get him back? A breathtakingly rich and gripping psychological thriller, The Vanishing Point is Val Mc Dermid's most accomplished standalone novel to date, a work of haunting brilliance.
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Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9780751546101
Delivery cost: 2.99
ISBN: 9780751546101
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Author: bannnedwaggin
Rating: 5
Review: I find it hard to see how reviewers can connect Scarlett of this book with Jade Goody. OK, so both were in reality TV shows - so were several hundred others. OK, so both came across originally as thicko bimbos - so have dozens of others; Jade Goody never was anything else. Nobody has ever been shown to be a really intelligent individual who was devoted to playing the game in her own interest - and, if you quote me Katie Price, I'll say that Scarlett never went to the breast mechanics that Katie did to take her memorable. Nor did Scarlett in this book! I have blown hot and cold on Val McDermid's previous work, finding it readable but not much more. I only read her Tony Hill work because the TV series was so well adapted (sorry, Val!). But this was totally different, a story that gripped from the start. Recognisable in that reality show winners must go somewhere afterwards, but different in that they didn't go the way you'd expect. And the base narrator, Stephanie, was very memorable as the real person she was, absolutely screwed up to be an adoptive mother, but, equally, wanting to be a person her own right, not haunted/hunted by a former lover. I think Val McDermid has entered a new style (for her) and has shown that she can get with it with the best.
Author: Bob Hurley
Rating: 3
Review: This book is about a working class woman who manages to find her way out of the working class background she grew up in and out to the life of a superstar. Deep down she is the same woman and the rest is all a skilful act. The acting is the main thread of the book right up until the last page where her act is finally rumbled. Quite a difficult read but typical Val McDermid thriller that drags you from one emotion to another, gives you shivers down your spine. I only gave it 3 stars as I did not think it was as good as other stories she has written. Having rated them 4 or mainly 5 I felt this one was a 3. As ever great writing.
