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Fiction.
Mystery.
Suspense.
Thriller.
HTML:??A challenging and satisfying thriller . . . [with] many surprising twists.???The New York Times
Jane Whitefield is a Native American guide who leads people out of the wilderness??not the tree-filled variety but the kind created by enemies who want you dead. She is in the one-woman business of helping the desperate disappear. Thanks to her membership in the Wolf Clan of the Seneca tribe, she can fool any pursuer, cover any trail, and then provide her clients with new identities, complete with authentic paperwork. Jane knows all the tricks, ancient and modern; in fact, she has invented several of them herself.
So she is only mildly surprised to find an intruder waiting for her when she returns home one day. An ex-cop suspected of embezzling, John Felker wants Jane to do for him what she did for his buddy Harry Kemple: make him vanish. But as Jane opens a door out of the world for Felker, she walks into a trap that will take all her heritage and cunning to escape. . . .
Praise for Vanishing Act
??Thomas Perry keeps pulling fresh ideas and original characters out of thin air. The strong-willed heroine he introduces in Vanishing Act rates as one of his most singular creations.???The New York Times Book Review
??One thriller that must be read. . . . Perry has created his most complex and compelling protagonist.???S… (mais)
rabck from booklady331; a well traveled book! Jane is a native american guide who can help you disappear. She's of the Wolf Clan, Seneca tribe, which gives her access to places and people not normally available. But in "helping", John Felker, she finds that he wants her to disappear...permanently. Can she outsmart him? ( )
Another great book by Thomas Perry. This is the first book in the Jane Whitefield series. The author beats the "Native American" drum a little to much but still a good story. I'll read more in this series. ( )
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There is nothing in which these barbarians carry their superstition to a more extravagant length, than in what regards dreams...in whatever manner the dream in conceived, it is always looked upon as a thing sacred, and as the most ordinary way in which the gods make known their will to men.
For the most part, they look upon them either as a desire of the soul inspired by some genius, or an order from him; and in consequence of this principle, they hold it a religious duty to obey them; and an Indian having dreamed of having a finger cut off, had it really cut off as soon as he awoke, after having prepared himself for this important action by a feast...
The affair becomes still more serious, should any one take it into his head to dream that he cuts the throat of another, for he will certainly accomplish it if he can; but woe to him, in his turn, should a third person dream that he revenges the dead.
Pierre de Charlevoix, Journal of a Voyage to North-America, 1761
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
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With love to Alix and Jo
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Jack Killigan used the reflections in the dark windows to watch the woman walk quickly up the long concourse, look at her high heels so she could take a few extra steps while the escalator was carrying her down, and then hurry around the curve so she could step onto the conveyor.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
"They're back in my kitchen now, eating some breakfast."
Fiction.
Mystery.
Suspense.
Thriller.
HTML:??A challenging and satisfying thriller . . . [with] many surprising twists.???The New York Times
Jane Whitefield is a Native American guide who leads people out of the wilderness??not the tree-filled variety but the kind created by enemies who want you dead. She is in the one-woman business of helping the desperate disappear. Thanks to her membership in the Wolf Clan of the Seneca tribe, she can fool any pursuer, cover any trail, and then provide her clients with new identities, complete with authentic paperwork. Jane knows all the tricks, ancient and modern; in fact, she has invented several of them herself.
So she is only mildly surprised to find an intruder waiting for her when she returns home one day. An ex-cop suspected of embezzling, John Felker wants Jane to do for him what she did for his buddy Harry Kemple: make him vanish. But as Jane opens a door out of the world for Felker, she walks into a trap that will take all her heritage and cunning to escape. . . .
Praise for Vanishing Act
??Thomas Perry keeps pulling fresh ideas and original characters out of thin air. The strong-willed heroine he introduces in Vanishing Act rates as one of his most singular creations.???The New York Times Book Review
??One thriller that must be read. . . . Perry has created his most complex and compelling protagonist.???S
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