Books about kidnapping and missing people
Stories set in motion by someone taken or someone gone missing. Jim Butcher's Changes begins when Harry Dresden learns his daughter has been kidnapped, Terry Pratchett's The Wee Free Men sends Tiffany Aching into fairyland to rescue her brother, and Patrick Radden Keefe's Say Nothing investigates the real disappearance of Jean McConville in Belfast. Searches, ransoms and rescues drive these books.
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- 1Network Effect
8.98.9 / 10 - 2Changes
8.88.8 / 10 - 3Say Nothing
8.88.8 / 10 - 4Crooked Kingdom
8.88.8 / 10 - 5Leviathan Wakes
8.68.6 / 10 - 6Fool's Errand
8.68.6 / 10 - 7Fool's Assassin
8.58.5 / 10 - 8The Rithmatist
8.48.4 / 10 - 9The Wee Free Men
8.48.4 / 10 - 10The Sandman
8.48.4 / 10 - 11Prisoners of the Sun
8.48.4 / 10 - 12The Titan's Curse
8.48.4 / 10 - 13The Silence of the Lambs
8.38.3 / 10 - 14Twelve Years a Slave
8.38.3 / 10 - 15Misery
8.28.2 / 10 - 16The Missing of Clairdelune
8.28.2 / 10 - 17Sabriel
8.28.2 / 10 - 18The BFG
8.18.1 / 10 - 19Mastiff
8.18.1 / 10 - 20The Prisoner of Limnos
8.18.1 / 10 - 21Clockwork Angel
8.18.1 / 10 - 22Silver Shadows
8.18.1 / 10 - 23The Institute
8.18.1 / 10 - 24Storm of Locusts
8.18.1 / 10 - 25The Fuller Memorandum
8.08.0 / 10 - 26Adulthood Rites
8.08.0 / 10 - 27A Breath of Snow and Ashes
8.08.0 / 10 - 28Once Upon a River
8.08.0 / 10 - 29Gregor the Overlander
7.97.9 / 10 - 30Moon Called
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