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Skyjack a Thea Paris novel

International kidnap-and-ransom expert Thea Paris is escorting two former child soldiers from Kanzi, Africa, to London when their plane is hijacked. As the plane heads for somewhere in the remote Libyan desert, Thea has to figure out how to take back control of the plane without endangering their li...

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Main Author: Howe, K. J. (Novelist) (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York, NY : Quercus, 2018.
Series: A Thea Paris novel
A Kidnap-and-ransom thriller
Subjects:
Kidnapping > Fiction.
Hostage negotiations > Fiction.
Rescue work > Fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)
Suspense fiction.
Summary: International kidnap-and-ransom expert Thea Paris is escorting two former child soldiers from Kanzi, Africa, to London when their plane is hijacked. As the plane heads for somewhere in the remote Libyan desert, Thea has to figure out how to take back control of the plane without endangering their lives. Behind the skyjacking is a former nemesis, a Sicilian mobster, who after tense negotiations finds himself with Thea at his beck and call. Revealing a deadly conspiracy that connects the dark postwar legacy of World War II to the present, this case will bring all parties to an explosive conclusion.
Physical Description: 399 pages ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9781681443010
1681443015
Author Notes: K.J. Howe is the executive director of ThrillerFest, the annual conference of International Thriller Writers. A three-time Daphne du Maurier Award winner, she completed her MA in Writing Popular Fiction at Seton Hill University. She is an avid traveler who has raced camels in Jordan, surfed in Hawaii, and dove with the great whites in South Africa. She became fascinated by the kidnap-and-ransom (K&R) world after meeting Peter Moore, a British computer consultant who became the longest-held hostage in Iraq and the only person to survive of the five men who were taken that day. She is the author of The Freedom Broker .

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