Snatched

Author: Karin Slaughter
Publish: Random House, May 2012
Pages: 67
Type: EBook
Rate: 5


 

Synopsis: Will Trent, a dedicated agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation for fifteen years, knows that there’s definitely such a thing as a cop’s intuition. Which is why he should have listened to his own.

While in an airport restroom at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International, Will overhears a girl’s pleading, plaintive voice: “Please, I wanna go home.” Something isn’t right here, thinks Will. He feels it in his gut. But he waits too long to act, and now the girl and the anxious, angry man she’s with have disappeared into the crowds at the busiest passenger airport in the world.

After a desperate search and with time running out, Will makes a call to his supervisor, Amanda Wagner. Will’s partner, Faith Mitchell, immediately sends out an abducted child alert. The entire airport will soon be grinding to a halt: Almost 100 million passengers a year. Five runways. Seven concourses. Six million square feet of space that sprawled across two counties, three cities, and five jurisdictions. All shut down on a dime because Will has a hunch that he is certain is true: a girl, maybe six or seven years old, has been snatched from God knows where. And he intends to bring her back—no matter what it takes.

My Review  

Will Trent is a great Detective with the GBI who has just stepped into a parent’s worst nightmare. He does his job well and it doesn’t take spidy senses to know something isn’t right with a little girl in a men’s urinal. Especially a little girl who is six or seven and coming into her femininity. I understand why Will questions himself about what he heard and saw in the bathroom. Until you become a parent your guts gives you different vibes. Once you become a parent you have a whole different set of intuitions. Although, Will follows his instincts, he questions himself a little too much, which becomes a little too late to keep the girl in eye sight. When Will loses eye sight of the girl, the chase is on and things start to get real. The time has come for instinctual decisions, along with a barrage of what ifs.       

If you know anything about the Will Trent Series, Will is a wonderful character who has not had such so wonderful upbringing. He is a perfect example of the lemons and lemonade deal. After 15 years as a detective, enduring a competent but moody partner and a boss with a type A personality, he is great at what he does.

From the beginning, Snatched grabs you in and have you turning pages until it’s done. The story stays on target and focus with time and content. At times it makes you want to beat the shit out of a couple of the characters, but there is Will and his team as well as old police connections to the rescue. The plot brings together more than a detective doing is due diligence on an assignment that sucks. It brings awareness to human trafficking, kidnapping at a level that is unfathomable and goes against the idea of rebuilding a two parent family life, and offers a little insight into the thoughts of pedophiles. It is easy to get attached to Will and want more because he really cares about what he does and you can feel that. I would have liked to have seen more detail on the capture of one of the culprits but the result was satisfying all the same. 

This story invokes a lot of emotion, especially if you have a child or have had a child in your life (regardless of the relationship). There is plenty of action and suspense in this novella. I rate is as a 5, and I recommend it to all without reservation.        

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Snatched