There is something about the elderly, retired, widowed, lonely and back from everything that exposes them to a hostile world with its undeniable literary side. Especially in aspects of suspense that point to that threatening space that increasingly occupies the space between the threshold of the front door and the immensity of the world ... But we cannot forget that old age gives wisdom even with the memory failing. And fear can awaken a bomb-proof survival instinct ...
De John katzenbach, Author of The psychoanalyst, your new arrives thriller where the only escape route for a 16-year-old girl kidnapped by a couple of psychopaths is an old retired psychology professor.
Adrian Thomas is a retired university professor who has just been diagnosed with degenerative dementia that will soon rain him to death. He has dedicated his entire life to studying the processes of the mind and transmitting all his knowledge to his students. Now retired, widowed and ill, he believes the best thing to do is take his life.
However, when leaving the doctor's office, he is an involuntary witness to the kidnapping of Jennifer Riggins, a troubled sixteen-year-old teenager with a long history of escapes, who disappears without a trace inside a van driven by a blonde woman.
Professor Thomas is torn between ending his life and being useful one last time before he dies. He decides to help find Jennifer, to try to give her the opportunity to live her young life. For that, he must immerse himself in the dark world of Internet pornography, a perverse and criminal world where all his academic knowledge is put into play, and where he must use the few moments of lucidity to advance an investigation for which there is very little time. ...
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