Method 15/33
Shannon Kirk
Oceanview, May 5 2015, $26.95
ISBN 9781608091454
From the moment the male kidnapped
her, the sixteen years old pregnant victim plots her escape. Calling her plan Method 15/33 with the
immediate goal of freedom for her and her unborn, and an avenging long term
goal afterward; the teen analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of her abductee
and his visitors whom she classifies as The
Doctor and Mr. and Mrs. Obvious. Quickly
she understands their motive is to snatch her trimester baby that she carries. Keeping her wits, she pretends to be a
frightened teen while cataloging her potentially available assets to use as
weapons against her capturer, his medical partner and their customers; or
enablers to get away.
Knowing they will get little to no help from the locals who prefer
to classify the cases as runaways especially since these are nonentities with
no ransom demands, two FBI agents investigate the serial disappearance of pregnant
teens in the Midwest. The Feds currently
follow leads re Dorothy Salucci that leads to a rural part of the Hoosier
state.
Method 15/33 is an exhilarating
thriller that grips the audience from the moment we meet the calm methodical
victim whose goal-setting for a life for her and her child after gaining her
freedom keeps her going (mindful of Viktor Frankl’s premise in Man's Search for
Meaning). Her ability to remember all
she cataloged may seem implausible; yet the focused protagonist makes it come
across as reasonable. Readers will
appreciate this refreshing terse thriller.
Harriet Klausner
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