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Desperation Moon

face=Arial>Fourteen-year-old Paige Radoslaw is watching her brother surf from

the Huntington Beach Pier as a big man named Gundry is watching her along with a

wispy weasel of a man named Rice. Paige s father is software billionaire Cyril

Radoslaw and the watchers are out on this sunny-bright day to kidnap his

children.

face=Arial>Finished surfing, twelve-year-old Peter joins his sister on the pier.

Rice lures them down the beach, says he wants to see some of the paintings the

surfers have decorated the beach wall with. Gundry shows up with a van. There s

a struggle, Peter gets away, but Paige is captured. She s taken to a ramshackle

shack in the middle of an oil field in central California along with another

kidnap victim, seven-year-old Kelly Hackett. Paige engineers an escape and she

and Kelly take off at a full run into the middle of a dark oil field and minutes

later the kidnappers are hot on their trail.

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MOON is the debut novel for writing sailor Ken Douglas. It s a fast paced

thriller that drips tension from every page as you race along with worry about

the two girls, kidnapped by a depraved psycho and his slow witted, malichious

partner.  Douglas writes suspense

like no other and somehow he manages to put his helpless characters into the

most desperate of situations. You know the kind, just when things can t get any

worse, they do. Then they get still worse.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 340
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780974524610
  • Genres
  • mystery, thriller
  • Release date
  • 2003