01483cam a2200229 4500 532101288 TxAuBib 110702s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780399158278 0399158278 BTCTA eng BTCTA YDXCP FN4 UPZ OCLCQ TOH RV8 IEP YCC IUK BWX COO KWL Ci8 TxAuBib Crais, Robert. Taken / Robert Crais. New York : Putnam Pub. Group, 2012. 341 p. ; 24 cm. Joe Pike novel, A When the police tell a wealthy industrialist that her missing son has faked his own kidnapping, she hires Elvis Cole and Joe Pike-and Cole soon determines that it was no fake. The boy and his secret girlfriend have been taken, and are now lost in the gray and changing world of the professional border kidnappers who prey not only on innocent victims but also on one another-buying, selling, and stealing victims like commodities. Fortunately, the kidnappers don't yet know who the boy is, but when Cole goes undercover to try to buy the two hostages back, he himself is taken and disappears. Now it is up to Pike to retrace Cole's steps, burning through the hard and murderous world of human traffickers ... before it is too late. Cole, Elvis (Fictitious character) Fiction. Pike, Joe (Fictitious character) Fiction. Suspense fiction. A Joe Pike novel.