The Abduction
Jonathan Holt
Harper, Jun 3 2014, $26.99
ISBN 9780062267047
At
construction of the Dal Molin Air Force Base near Venice, human remains are found. At about the same, Major Elston’s sixteen
year old daughter Mia vanished two days ago.
Not long afterward, Mia appears on Daniele Barbo’s Carnivia.com cyber version
of Venice in which her kidnappers deploy Cheney non-torture techniques on the
teen. On social media, the abductors
insist they will stop when construction halts.
Carabinieri Colonel
Aldo Piola works the base case in which the skeleton has been buried for seventy years
old and two more dead from the 1940s are found.
At the same time Carabinieri Captain Kat Tapo and U.S. Army Second
Lieutenant Holly Boland obtain Barbo’s help as they attempt to rescue the girl.
The
second Carnivia thriller (see The
Abomination) is a fabulous Venetian investigative tale starring four
diligent but somewhat laid-back individuals, a teen in trouble, and virtual and
real Venice. However, the key to this
insightful saga is the deep look at American foreign policy since 1941 as we
historically react to the crisis of the moment while ignoring the long term
strategic effect of our actions; especially when we set precedent that enemies
deploy as made by America sanctioned.
Harriet
Klausner
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