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"Another stunner from a modern master."—Booklist (Starred Review) Rescue artist Jane Whitefield leads a deadly crime syndicate on a wild chase through the Northeast Jane Whitefield helps people disappear. Fearing for their lives, fleeing dangerous situations, her clients come to her when they need to vanish completely—to assume a new identity and establish a new life somewhere they won’t be found. And when people are desperate enough to need her services, they come to the old house in rural western New York where Jane was raised to begin their escape. It’s there that, one spring night, Jane finds a young woman fresh from LA with a whole lot of trouble behind her. After she cheated on her boyfriend, he dragged her to the home of the offending man and made her watch as he killed him. She testified against the boyfriend, but a bribed jury acquitted him, and now he’s free and trying to find and kill her. Jane agrees to help, and it soon becomes clear that outsmarting the murderous boyfriend is not beyond Jane’s skills. But the boyfriend has some new friends: members of a Russian organized crime brotherhood. When they learn that Sara is traveling with a tall, dark-haired woman who disappears people, the Russians become increasingly interested in helping the boyfriend find the duo. They’ve heard rumors that such a woman existed—and believe that, if forcibly extracted, the knowledge she has of past clients could be worth millions. Thus begins a bloodthirsty chase that winds through the cities of the northeast before finally plunging into Maine’s Hundred Mile Wilderness. But in a pursuit where nothing can be trusted, one thing is certain: only one party—Jane or her pursuers—will emerge alive.
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If you've read the rest of the series, there's not a lot new here.
The bad guys try to capture Jane so they can sell her off, just like in book 7. And just like in books 1 and 3, Jane leads them into the wilderness where the hunted can become the hunter. The one new element comes near the end, when they actually manage to track Jane to her home.
One thing that's funny here is that Perry seems to have reluctantly included modern technology, but he doesn't have the most natural grasp on it. Some example phrases that stood out awkwardly to me: “he engaged the app for the car”, “She used the app on her phone to call a rideshare car”, “she texted his phone”.
And at one point Jane quickly removes the battery from a smartphone before throwing it away, which isn't exactly easy to do, at least not on most phones!
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8 primary booksJane Whitefield is a 8-book series with 8 primary works first released in 1995 with contributions by Thomas Perry.
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