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The kid always makes it.
The kid always makes it.
About this book
"24 Hours begins with the perfect family. On the perfect night. About to be trapped in the perfect crime.". "Will and Karen Jennings are a successful young couple with every reason to celebrate. From modest beginnings they have built the life of their dreams. Will has a thriving medical practice, and stands at the threshold of a great fortune. Karen has designed a magnificent house to shelter them and the five-year-old daughter they love beyond measure. But they are about to be tested in a way they could never imagine.". "They have been targeted by John Hickey, a genius who has found the key to one of the oldest crimes in the world - kidnapping. Hickey has turned the crime inside out, creating an unbreakable knot of technology and terror that no one can unravel. In twenty-four hours of hellish precision, he squeezes a family's pressure points, extracts the ransom, and vanishes into thin air, leaving the hostage alive but the family too shattered even to call the police. Five times he has executed his plan, and not once has he been caught. He is unstoppable. Untouchable." "But this time Hickey wants more than money. This time he is driven by the pain of his own family tragedy, one he lays at the door of Will and Karen Jennings. He means to avenge it in his own terrible way and disappear forever. He has reckoned every factor but one: Will, Karen, and Abby share a love that only the closest families know, and from that love grows a formidable strength.". "Though miles apart, the brilliant physician, the protective mother, and the resourceful child struggle against the cloc…
Themes & subjects
PhysiciansDetective and mystery storiesPsychopathsFictionLarge type booksFiction, thrillers, suspense
First published 2000Setting
Jackson (Miss.)
About the author
Greg Iles
8 April 1960 – 15 August 2025
Greg Iles was born in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany, where his physician father ran the U.S. Embassy Medical Clinic during the height of the Cold War. Iles spent his youth in Natchez, Mississippi, and graduated from the University of Mississippi in 1983. Iles spent several years as a guitarist, singer, and songwriter in the band Frankly Scarlet. He quit the band after he was married and began working on his first novel, *Spandau Phoenix*, a thriller about Nazi war criminal Rudolf Hess. Primarily set in the Deep South, his later novels have been made into films, translated into more than 20 languages, and published in more than 35 countries worldwide. In 2011, Iles was serious…
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