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No life is perfect. Everyone has secrets.
For millions of Londoners, the morning of 17 December is just like any other. But not for Sam Wren. An hour after leaving home, he gets onto a tube train - and never gets off again. No eyewitnesses. No trace of him on security cameras. Six months later, he's still missing.
Out of options and desperate for answers, Sam's wife Julia hires David Raker to track him down. Raker has made a career out of finding the lost. He knows how they think. And, in missing person cases, the only certainty is that everyone has something to hide.
But in this case the secrets go deeper than anyone imagined.
For, as Raker starts to suspect that even the police are lying to him, someone is watching. Someone who knows what happened on the tube that day. And, with Raker in his sights, he'll do anything to keep Sam's secrets to himself . . .
Vanished marks the return of an amazing new thriller talent - Tim Weaver is all set to become a household name in the world of suspense fiction.
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A serial killer more terrifying than you could ever imagine . . .
Seventeen-year-old Megan Carver was an unlikely runaway. A straight-A student from a happy home, she studied hard and rarely got into trouble. Six months on, she’s never been found.
Missing persons investigator David Raker knows what it’s like to grieve. He knows the shadowy world of the lost too. So, when he’s hired by Megan’s parents to find out what happened, he recognizes their pain – but knows that the darkest secrets can be buried deep. And Megan’s secrets could cost him his life. Because as Raker investigates her disappearance, he realizes everything is a lie.
People close to her are dead. Others are too terrified to talk. And soon the conspiracy of silence leads Raker towards a forest on the edge of the city. A place with a horrifying history – which was once the hunting ground for a brutal, twisted serial killer. A place known as the Dead Tracks. . . .
"Perfect plotting, great characterisation and the kind of payoff that a thriller of this calibre deserves... " - WWW.BOOKGEEKS.CO.UK
"Raker is an excellent creation, the right amount of pathos and humility throughout, he is fast becoming one of my favourite lead characters in crime fiction." - WWW.GUILTYCONSCIENCEBLOG.COM
| Territory | Publisher/Agent |
|---|---|
| World | Darley Anderson Agency (Camilla Wray) |
| UK & Commonwealth | Penguin |
| Germany | Goldmann |
| Israel | Matar Publishing House |
| Poland | Albatros |
| Russia | AST |
| Turkey | Ephesus |
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One year ago, Alex Towne’s body was found. One month ago, his mother saw him on the street. One week ago, David Raker agreed to look for him. Now he’ll wish he hadn’t.
Mary Towne’s son, Alex, went missing six years ago. Five years later he finally turned up – as a corpse in a car wreck. Missing persons investigator David Raker doesn’t want the work. It’s clearly a sad but hopeless case of mistaken identity brought to him by a woman unable to let go of her son. But haunted by a loss of his own, Raker reluctantly agrees.
Big mistake.
For as he digs deeper, he discovers that Alex’s life was not the innocent one his mother believed. Buried in his past are sinister secrets that were never meant to be found – and dark, dangerous men are willing to kill to protect them.
Soon Raker will discover that there are things far worse than death...
"This impressive début delivers on pace and stomach-turning brutality, if not character... Fans of Mo Hayder will be in seventh hell." - GUARDIAN
"A fantastic and gripping read as good as any début I have ever read." - WWW.GOODREADS.COM
| Territory | Publisher/Agent |
|---|---|
| World | Darley Anderson Agency (Camilla Wray) |
| UK & Commonwealth | Penguin |
| France | Feuille Bleue |
| Germany | Goldmann |
| Greek | Logeion |
| Israel | Matar Publishing House |
| Poland | Amber |
| Russia | AST |
| Turkey | Ephesus |
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