Book description
It's every parent's worst nightmare...
Stephanie Harker is travelling through the security gates at O'Hare
airport, on her way to an idyllic holiday. Five-year-old Jimmy goes
through the metal detector ahead of her. But then, in panic and
disbelief, Stephanie watches as a uniformed agent leads her boy away -
and she's stuck the other side of Security, hysterical with worry. The
authorities, unaware of Jimmy's existence, just see a woman behaving
erratically; Stephanie is brutally wrestled to the ground and blasted
with a taser gun to restrain her. And 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 with this
seeminglynormal family. What is Jimmy's background? Why would someone
want to abduct him? And, with time running out, how can Stephanie get
him back? A breathtakingly rich and gripping psychological thriller,
The Vanishing Point
is Val McDermid's most accomplished standalone novel to date, a work of
haunting brilliance. Val McDermid is a top 10 bestseller, translated
into more than 30 languages, with over two million copies sold in the UK
and over 10 million worldwide. She has written 25 bestselling novels,
most recently The Retribution.
She has won many awards internationally, including the CWA Gold Dagger
for best crime novel of the year and the the Stonewall Writer of the
Year Award. In 2011, Val was the recipient of the Pioneer Award at the
23rd Annual Lambda Literary Awards. In 2010, she was awarded the
prestigious CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger. This followed her induction into
the Hall of Fame at the ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards in 2009, the same
year in which she was elected to an Honorary Fellowship at St Hilda's
College, Oxford.
