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ROBERT
CRAIS: TAKEN
 The
extraordinary new crime novel from
the New York Times bestselling
author.
When Nita Morales hires
Elvis Cole to find her
missing adult daughter, she
isn’t afraid, even though
she’s gotten a phone call
asking for ransom. She knows
it’s a fake, that her
daughter is off with the guy
Nita will only call “that
boy,” and that they need
money: “Even smart girls do
stupid things when they
think a boy loves them.”
But Nita is wrong. The girl
and her boyfriend have been
taken by bajadores – bandits
who prey on other bandits,
border professionals who
prey not only on innocent
victims, but on each other.
They steal drugs, guns, and
people – buying and selling
victims like commodities,
and killing the ones they
can’t get a price for.
Elvis Cole and Joe Pike find
the spot where they were
taken. There are tire
tracks, bullet casings, and
bloodstains. They know
things look as bad as
possible. But they are
wrong, too. It is about to
get worse. Going undercover
to find the two young people
and buy them back, Cole
himself is taken, and now it
is up to Joe Pike to retrace
Cole’s steps, burning
through the hard and
murderous world of human
traffickers to find his
friend.
But he may already be too
late..
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