The day is coming. Your mobile phone rings and you verify that you have been added to a group of school parents. The nightmare has begun ...
Jokes aside, the idea of this novel is very suggestive based on that feeling of particular connection between today's parents. A reference that Adrian mckinty has managed to transform into the darkest of plots, in the purest style of the great domestic thrillers of Shari lapena.
Under the frenetic pace of the great suspense novels, with that intense emotional component of motherhood, the tension increases exponentially with each new participant in the sinister chain. The plot progresses linking with an electricity of panic that hooks towards the longed-for resolution, the most favorable possible.
And at times it seems that this solution cannot be found. Because the tangle of emotions and fear is entwined in each new father or mother taken to the extreme. Even when someone like Rachel reacts in an unexpected way and decides to face this insane plan, we cannot wait for a resolution that will reveal everything.
It is the most sinister of broken phones. Messages between parents run like wildfire and the origin of everything can hardly be found. The matter is insanely simple. Kylie, Rachel's daughter has been kidnapped and the frightened mother is informed that she has to pay the ransom and continue the chain of kidnappings if she wants to see her daughter alive again. And I say that it is something "simple" because it is the parents themselves who are compelled to continue with that chain of actions and calls for the most indecent profit of the unknown initiator of the plan.
The creators of the chain have it clear. They consider that any parent would be willing to kill anyone to get their son or daughter back.
It would take a great deal of coldness, courage or madness to decide to break the chain. But it turns out that Rachel has a bit of all of that. Thanks to it the chain can break. The question is whether it will finally succeed and whether, in addition, the point where it all originated can be discovered ...
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