Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780399150562
ISBN number: 0399150560
Label: Putnam Adult
Manufacturer: Putnam Adult
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 384
Printing Date: July 28, 2003
Publishing house: Putnam Adult
Release Date: July 28, 2003
Sale Popularity Level: 528117
Studio: Putnam Adult
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FBI agents Savich and Sherlock face two baffling cases in Catherine Coulter's electrifying new thriller.
Catherine Coulter's fast-paced FBI novels featuring married FBI agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich have rocketed up the New York Times bestseller lists and garnered millions of fans. Coulter's heady blend of action and intrigue grows more intoxicating with each book-and reaches new heights in BlindSide.
When six-year-old Sam Kettering is kidnapped and then manages to save himself, Savich and Sherlock join his father-former FBI agent Miles Kettering-to determine why Sam would be abducted and brought to eastern Tennessee. Although the local sheriff, Katie Benedict, kills the kidnappers, the attempts do not stop. The investigation leads them to charismatic, intense evangelist Reverend Sooner McCamy and his enigmatic wife.
At the same time, Savich and Sherlock are desperate to locate the killer of five Washington, D.C., teachers. And meet Valerie Rapper, a woman on a mission: she wants Savich in the worst way. . .
A riveting novel of knife-edge suspense, BlindSide is Catherine Coulter at the top of her game.
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Have gotten hooked on the FBI series and enjoy them. This was a good one too.
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Another great one in the FBI series. The characters are real and easily related to.
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The plot: In this 8th book of Coulter's FBI thiller series, a young boy, Sam Kettering is kidnapped from his home and taken to a small cabin in the Tennessee mountains. During a storm he manages to escape and run into (fortuitously) the sheriff of the small town of Jessboro, Katie Benedict. Katie and her daughter, Keeley, had been driving along when they see Sam running out of the woods with his kidnappers in mad pursuit. Katie manages to pick up Sam, wound one of the kidnappers and get Sam away.
Sam's father is Miles Kettering a friend of series regulars Dillon Savith & Lacey Sherlock, two top FBI agents. Soon, Katie notifies them that Sam is safe and the FBI descend on the town. Soon is becomes clear that Sam was kidnapped for reasons other than money as the kidnappers continue to try to get at Sam even while he is surrounded by the sherriff, a slew of deputies and a bunch of FBI agents.
There is a B-plot surrounding a math teacher serial killer case that Savith and Sherlock are pursuing as well as a very, very (extremely superfluous) minor D-plot of a va-va-voomy gym-fly who keeps putting the moves on Savitch.
Also, since Coulter has her roots in romance, Miles and Katie end up getting together.
The reading: The audiobook was read ably by Sandra Burr. Ms. Burr has a beautiful voice, rich and nicely inflected. She does a pretty good job with distinguishing the various players through altering her voice. There are only two really off-putting "voices" for me. 1) the kids, when she does the high piping thing to signify Sam or Kelley speaking --- just sounds awkward and 2) Katie. Burr's voice is almost too feminine, too soft for my vision of Katie. In the book, Katie comes off as steely eyed and tough. The voice for Katie seems too soft, imo.
My review: I gave this three stars which I think it might be a bit generous. For the most part it is engaging and I did enjoy listening to it. However, I had some real plotting problems. For instance, the adults insisted on keeping Sam in the area where they knew the kidnappers and the danger still was because he had "bonded with Keeley" and they didn't want to separate the kids. Why not relocate him to a safe house far away from the threat? Take Keeley along if the bond was so deep (after just two days). Also, the ultimate motive for the kidnapping was just....lame. Okay, so we get why the person who wanted Sam orchestrated the kidnapping in the very first place. What doesn't really wash is why the hired kidnappers insisted on continually going after Sam even while he was surrounded by so much law enforcement. The relentlessness of the kidnappers was seemingly all out of proportion to what they could expect as a reward for doing the dirty work. As hardened criminals, in the face of so much law, they should have (would have by all logic) cut and run. But they kept coming. And why? Well, my imaginings as the reader for why they were so determined to get Sam for the person who hired them were so much more dire and dangerous than the book eventually lays out. And finally, the bad guys were like the terminators...no matter how beat up, no matter how bashed up, no matter how incapacitated... they just manage to keep coming and keep escaping. One second they've been beaten into oblivion and then the subsequent they are running spryly away. Or they've been knocked out by a car wreck but manage to wiggle out just before the car blows up (unseen by scads of watching law enforcement). Really, why not just let them dematerialize in front of everyone it would be just about as credible?
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I truly enjoyed this book of the FBI series , but do fill that Dana Carver could have had more of a role in this . I think Eleventh Hour was a shade better since Carver has a little romantic role and was more active in that . This one the characters are mostly Salvage and wife that does the action . However it is still a great FBI suspence .
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Savich and Sherlock do not belong in this story. They seem to be an after thought to fit into a popular series, which doesn't work. This is the eighth in a good series, but doesn't have the quality that expectations from previous stories lead the reader to expect. Maybe one shouldn't mix romance, suspense and mystery all in the same volume. Though this seems to be a current trend.
Nash Black, author of TRAVELERS and QUALIFYING LAPS.
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