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    The Abduction

    Written by Jonathan Holt

    Narrated by Michael Fenner

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    The Abduction has begun…

    The teenage daughter of a US soldier disappeared in Venice last night. Now clues are appearing on anonymous website Carnivia.com - and the police are always one step behind. Kat Tapo of the Venice Carabinieri and US intelligence analyst Holly Boland are working together to find the girl, but the race to save her will uncover a conspiracy that powerful men will kill to keep hidden.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. F. Howes Ltd
    Release dateMay 8, 2014
    ISBN9781471262876
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    The Abduction
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    Jonathan Holt

    When Jonathan Holt first traveled to Venice, he found it shrouded in thick fog and flooded with high water. This experience inspired him to write the Carnivia Trilogy, a series of thrillers based on Italy’s hidden past. The Abomination and The Absolution, the first two books, have now become international bestsellers published in sixteen countries. The second novel in the trilogy was longlisted for a Crime Writers’ Association Steel Dagger Award.

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    • 5/5
      This great novel weaves a path from the Vietnam War to current day through the lives of the men who served there and their families. Gimenez creates wonderfully believable relationships between the players in the story. The continuing lack of full disclosure prevents family members from developing strong lasting relationships. The stress of the abduction causes the players to extend beyond themselves, bonding together to reach a common goal. Excellent book, riveting to the end.
    • 3/5
      Interesting characters and plot. But the parts just didn't quite seem to fit together smoothly. Since this is something at which a novelist can improve, I will look for Gimenez's next book.
    • 3/5
      A 10 year old girl is abducted from her soccer game. She went to the concession stand for a snow cone, while her father, who attended the game, stayed in the stands talking business on his cell phone.. Her coach actually pointed her out to the abductor who passed himself off as her uncle. Her mother was working late and arrived to find her daughter gone. She will probably never forgive her husband.This book details the anguish, guilt and anger and invasion that a family goes through in this situation. From her younger brother who doesn’t understand, to her helpless grandparents, this family is broken, probably beyond repair. But, of course, this is no ordinary family. The father is a certified genius who is about to become an overnight billionaire, her mother is a brilliant defence lawyer with a mysterious past, and her grandfather a decorated military hero who blew the whistle about a massacre in Viet Nam. So was Grace taken for ransom, taken for revenge or just taken by a random pervert? As these questions slowly unfold and the truth revealed, the book goes into over-drive as her father and Grandfather race to find and rescue her.I found this book rather slow to get into, but once the action started, it kicked into high gear. The author was a little heavy-handed with his characters, his bad guys were truly evil, and his good guys were practically super heroes. The victim, Grace was a little too spunky and sophisticated for a ten year old, but, with all of that this was a thriller and it certainly managed to deliver the thrills.
    • 4/5
      I really like this author. His books have really well-drawn characters and the stories just suck me in. This was the second book I read after The Color of Law and I enjoyed it as well. The Vietnam Era is my era, so it had some historical resonance for me as well. Recommend it to those who like legal or even semi-legal thrillers.
    • 4/5
      The men placed two towels, neatly folded, on the bench, followed by a red plastic watering can.A title appeared.WATERBOARDING IS NOT TORTURE.AT 9 P.M. TONIGHT SHE WILL NOT BE TORTURED.At the start of this book, Kat and Holly are no longer friends, with Holly having moved out after a huge row not about a frying pan, but they and Daniele are soon brought back together when a protester finds a skeleton on a new American military base that is being built near Vicenza and the teenage daughter of an American officer is kidnapped by a group who post their demands on the Carnivale website. they soon find themselves embroiled in a conspiracy involving the CIA, the American military and the CIA that seems to have it roots in the murder of a communist guerilla near the end of World War II.You really get a good feel of the culture, politics and history of Northern Italy from this book, and the author's historical note at the end of the book makes you want to know more about it.
    • 4/5
      I was thrilled to receive a copy of The Abduction by Jonathan Holt, the second book in the Carnivia trilogy. It wasn't long ago that I reviewed The Abomination, which I thought was a terrific mystery, so I was eager to see where the story went next.The Abduction focuses again on the unlikely trio of detectives: Venetian police captain Kat Tapo, Second Lieutenant Holly Boland, and reclusive genius Daniele Barbo. Tapo has filed a sexual harassment suite against her former lover, Colonel Aldo Piola - and good for her, because the resolution of their affair was really unfair for her. There is tension between Tapo and Boland, as well as an entirely different sort of tension between Boland and Barbo. These characters are so very different and it is really interesting to see the way they interact.The novel starts with an erotic swingers event at an upscale nightclub, which is a great way to begin a story! A young woman is abducted - a teenager who should definitely not have been at this party. Her name is Mia and she is the daughter of a US Army officer. There is no ransom demand, but there is a video - a very strange video - and eventually, the kidnappers' plans become clear. It's a chilling plan and since the kidnappers are online, it is going viral all over the globe.And then, just like the storyline in The Abomination, the story veers off into entirely new territory. There are interesting tendrils - a secret society, hacked email, disturbing documents found in the Vatican archives. This is what I love the most about this series! No matter where the story starts, it take you places you had no idea were even on the map. It's such a refreshing change from plodding procedurals and predictable detective stories and I have been recommending this one to everyone. I am really looking forward to reading the third book in the trilogy - but I am not looking forward to the end of their stories!
    • 5/5
      The Abduction – Stunning StoryThe Abduction is the eagerly awaited follow up to The Abomination by the secretive Jonathan Holt the pseudonym for an already successful British author. This is the second in his Carnivia trilogy and keeps up the pace The Abomination started and brings to life some of Italy’s murky post-war past and the aid that the Americans and the Vatican gave the country not to fall in to the communist’s hands. The historical notes that Holt has drawn on a number of real conspiracies from the cold war and has used some dramatic licence in the process.The Abduction takes that murky past and centres it on Venice and gives us a breathtaking thriller that leaves you hungry for more and glad that you have read this instalment. The Abduction carries on shining a light in to those dark corners of Italian and Papal history and gives us a high voltage, double dealing, absolutely fascinating thriller.It is carnival time in Venice and a young girl is kidnapped from a club where one of the hottest parties is taking place. The only problem is that the girl Mia is an army brat and her dad is based just outside Venice at the local military base. The kidnappers reveal themselves to be an activist group who want an end to all military bases in Italy and to help their cause they use the CIA torture memos to inflict a living nightmare upon Mia.With our returning heroes Captain Kat Tapo of the Venice Carabinieri and second Lieutenant Holly Boland of the liaison unit or commonly acknowledged in the USA army as an Intelligence Analyst. The kidnappers are coming across as well organised amateurs but there is something about this kidnap that does not seem to be amateur to Kat and Holly; it is this that they investigate having to use their acquaintance Danielle Barbo hacker extraordinaire and the genius behind Carnivia the virtual world of Venice where anything goes.We see the pervasive hand of the CIA and US military always hovering in the background of the Carabinieri investigation and sometimes using the power of the mis-direct to cover their aims. As the investigate continues both Kat and Holly feel they are not being told the full story of why Mia was targeted and it is down to them to investigate this and it could endanger them both.As the politicians and media press for the closure of Carnivia.com and the Italian anti-terrorist team attempt to shut it down it is through Carnivia and Barbo that Kat and Holly can investigate fully. Whether either of our intrepid investigators are able to save Mia and find the truth may have a very high dividend but both are equally determined to discover the truth of both the past and the present. Even though they know that it is a great risk to themselves.This is another fantastic part of the Carnivia trilogy and no reader will be disappointed, but it will leave them breathless and gagging for the final part of the trilogy. This is a brilliant blend of the past and the present made in to a thriller and the dial has been turned up to 11. Holt again shows that he is a master of his research, while making no political statement shines a light into parts of Italian history some wish would stay in the past. This is a winner of a book with very engaging characters and you are able to see how things unravel for the kidnappers in a very believable way. Simply brilliant.