Lost (44 page)

How far would you go to save the
life of your child?

When her son disappears in the blink of an eye,
widow Kate Bickford is forced to find out.
Confronted by his cold, calculating abductor, she
is pushed to her very limits … and beyond.

All the characters in this book have no existence outside the imagination of the author, and have no relation whatsoever to anyone bearing the same name or names. They are not even distantly inspired by any individual known or unknown to the author, and all the incidents are pure invention.

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Published in Great Britain 2007.
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© Rodman Philbrick 2007

ISBN 978-1-408-92929-2