Her life has been shaped by the traumatic experience she had growing up in a cult… I mean… “Christian community”. The main character, Abby Mullen, is a hostage negotiator for the NYPD. I mean ranch is one of the main food groups, but must we write a character who hates Chick-Fil-A sauce? The characters eat Chick-Fil-A and one eats her sandwich with ranch dressing. Nothing prepared you better for crisis management.” “They should insist all prospective negotiators have kids. “He was actually a softhearted kitten trapped in a the body of a nineties-movie action hero.” I also want to commend the author for good, creative, realistic, and at times (properly) funny writing and dialogue. You will probably finish the book feeling like you could most certainly negotiate yourself out of a hostage situation! (But let’s not do anything stupid.) ![]() It includes quite a bit of negotiating strategy. It ends on a cliffhanger setting up book two. BUT based on the last few sentences of the book, I was actually right just in a different way. I thought I had the abductor figured out, but I was wrong. This was a well-written and suspenseful story. Which is more dangerous- the influence of a cult or being a social media influencer?Ī Deadly Influence weaves these two powers together in a chilling thriller about a kidnapping and what it takes to get him back. I feel the need to go to the next book just to see what is going on. While the book tied up this story, it did leave a tiny cliffhanger at the end. ![]() It was a good story that had some endearing characters. The story also brings social media into the picture and shows how it can be entertaining but also dangerous. We see the struggles that the children went through in the past and how it actually helps Abby with the case in the present. The book flows between the past and the present effortlessly. Finding herself reliving the past, she uses what she knows to help navigate her way through the dealings with this new cult. After delving into the mysteries around the child’s disappearance, Abby finds that she might be dealing with another cult. They share a past made up of tragic events from a cult that they were both members of when they were children. Once she gets to the mom’s house, she finds that she knows her. When Abby Mullen, hostage negotiation instructor, gets a phone call from a mom about a missing child, she feels compelled to help. About what’s happened in the years since she and Abby parted ways.Īs the truth closes in, Abby realizes that her past may not be as far behind as she thought…and it’s come home to collect. She’s silent about the relics of their shared past hanging on her walls. As Abby throws herself into the case, she can’t help but wonder why the kidnapper has targeted Eden. ![]() But now Eden needs Abby’s help: someone has kidnapped her son and is demanding a $5 million ransom. The two haven’t spoken since the night of a tragic, fiery massacre, when their paths diverged. That all changes when she gets a call from Eden Fletcher, a fellow survivor of the infamous Wilcox cult. As the hostage negotiation instructor for the NYPD, she deals with worst-case scenarios every day. Lieutenant Abby Mullen is no stranger to crisis. Para obtener más información sobre cómo y para qué fines Amazon utiliza la información personal (como el historial de pedidos de Amazon Store), visita nuestro Aviso de privacidad.įrom bestselling author Mike Omer comes the first in a new series full of the psychological twists and police procedural turns that his fans have come to know and love. Para ello, visita Preferencias de cookies, tal y como se describe en el Aviso de cookies. Puedes cambiar de opinión en cualquier momento. Haz clic en “Personalizar cookies” para rechazar estas cookies, tomar decisiones más detalladas u obtener más información. Estos terceros utilizan cookies para mostrar y medir anuncios personalizados, generar información sobre la audiencia, y desarrollar y mejorar los productos. Esto incluye el uso de cookies propias y de terceros que almacenan o acceden a información estándar del dispositivo, como un identificador único. Si estás de acuerdo, también utilizaremos las cookies para complementar tu experiencia de compra en las tiendas de Amazon, tal y como se describe en nuestro Aviso de cookies. También utilizamos estas cookies para entender cómo utilizan los clientes nuestros servicios (por ejemplo, mediante la medición de las visitas al sitio web) con el fin de poder realizar mejoras. Utilizamos cookies y herramientas similares que son necesarias para permitirte comprar, mejorar tus experiencias de compra y proporcionar nuestros servicios, según se detalla en nuestro Aviso de cookies.
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