
Jane Whitefield
is a Seneca woman who helps people disappear from whatever trouble they’ve been
facing, but in this case, the novel started by helping an 8-year-old boy
reappear. Timmy John Phillips is an heir to a fortune, and when he disappeared
to save his life, his enormous trust was being managed by a firm which is in
the process of robbing him. The firm is attempting to declare that he’s dead so
they can finish off his trust, and Timmy has to get to court to prove that he
is still alive. But, there are people who are trying to make sure that does not
happen. In the process, two of Jane’s helpers are killed, and then in the
courthouse, she gets into a fistfight with Timmy’s would-be abductors just as
Timmy crashes into the judge’s chambers to declare himself alive.
As the result of
the courthouse altercation, Jane spends a couple days in jail where she runs
into Mary Perkins, a woman who needs to disappear. And so the stories of Mary,
a woman who has stolen money during the Savings & Loan crisis of 1989-90,
and Timmy become mixed together. The bad guy in all of this is a former cop,
Barraclough, now the director of the Los Angeles office of Intercontinental
Security. In Barraclough, Perry has created an excellent evil foe with whom
Whitefield would seem to be overmatched.
The author takes
us into current day Indian culture and there’s a mild thread of mysticism to
the story. However, the mysticism is not over-the-top like some of Steven King’s
books. Thanks to Gage and Healy, I’m back on track for more Thomas Perry.
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