The Abduction: A Novel, by Jonathan Holt
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The Abduction is the heart-pounding, adrenaline-fuelled follow up to Jonathan Holt’s highly acclaimed international thriller The Abomination—a modern tale of mystery, treachery, and intrigue that moves between the physical and virtual worlds of Venice, Italy, blurring the boundary between dark fantasy and terrifying reality.
An unlikely trio must form an alliance to save a kidnapped young girl and untangle a nefarious plot that reaches back decades.
Second Lieutenant Holly Boland is an intelligence analyst trained to look for clues ordinary investigators miss. When a U.S. army officer’s daughter is kidnapped from an American base in Venice, Holly is sure that the mysterious abductors want more than a ransom.
Venetian police captain Kat Tapo has found a webcam feed embedded in the encrypted website Carnivia.com, a virtual Venice. It streams video of a terrified teenage girl, hooded and tied to a chair. A strand of text scrolls across the screen: “Sensory deprivation is not torture.” Is the girl the missing daughter of the American military officer? Who is behind the cryptic message?
Daniele Barbo, the genius webmaster and creator of Carnivia, has never let the government access his servers, and finding the missing girl is not his problem. But then secrets from Italy’s dark wartime past begin to surface—revelations that could put them all in danger. To save his own skin, Daniel must decide how far he’s willing to let them in.
In a race against time, Holly, Kat, and Daniel must find the shocking truth . . . or watch as more than one innocent life is sacrificed.
The Abduction: A Novel, by Jonathan Holt- Amazon Sales Rank: #1587297 in Books
- Brand: Holt, Jonathan
- Published on: 2015-06-30
- Released on: 2015-06-30
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x 1.08" w x 5.31" l, .65 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 480 pages
From Booklist This second installment in the Carnivia trilogy (following The Abomination, 2013) returns to Venice, a setting that embodies beauty and decay. Holt also brings back Venetian carabiniere capo Kat Tapo, a woman who likes the dark side of Venice a bit too much for her own safety. The mystery centers on the kidnapping of a young American girl from a sex party during Carnivale. The girl’s parents are both attached to the controversial and unpopular new U.S. military base outside Venice. The kidnappers use the Internet to show the parents exactly what kind of tortures their daughter is undergoing (readers may well feel uncomfortable at the graphic details the author presents). At the same time, a skeleton found near the American airfield proves to be that of a famous Italian Resistance officer, and other developments point toward an explosive revelation about the papacy during WWII. Holt gives us excruciating suspense in the kidnapping narrative, suspense that’s heightened by also presenting the victim’s shifting point of view, from a benign “This is a matter of business” to unraveled terror. --Connie Fletcher
Review “Enthralling…. Holt deftly avoids prurience or gratuity while conveying the horror of walling, waterboarding, and similar practices… raising troubling questions about how the U.S. defines its allies and foes, and how it treats both.” (Publishers Weekly)“Holt gives us excruciating suspense in the kidnapping narrative, suspense that’s heightened by also presenting the victim’s shifting point of view, from a benign ‘This is a matter of business’ to unraveled terror.” (Booklist)
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The Abduction is an adrenaline-fueled tale of mystery and intrigue that moves between the physical world of Venice, Italy, and its online counterpart, blurring the boundary between dark fantasy and even darker reality.
Captain Kat Tapo of the Venice Carabinieri knows that the social media site Carnivia.com harbors disturbing secrets, but she's shocked to discover a webcam feed that streams video of a hooded and shackled teenage girl. A strand of text repeatedly scrolls across the screen: STRESSFUL STANDING IS NOT TORTURE. At the same time, Second Lieutenant Holly Boland searches for a US Army officer's daughter who is missing from an American military base near the city. When a group demanding an end to US bases in Italy claims responsibility, it seems clear why she was kidnapped. But the more the two women investigate, the murkier the case becomes. Carnivia.com's uncooperative creator has yet to yield its hidden truths to the authorities. But when secrets from Italy's complicated wartime past begin to surface, he must decide how much he will reveal. If the shocking truth is not discovered, more than one innocent life will be sacrificed. . . .
With The Abduction, the second book in the Carnivia Trilogy, Jonathan Holt delivers a heart-pounding sequel to his acclaimed international thriller The Abomination.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Fascinating blend of travel, history, borderline sci-fi, mystery and who-done-it rolled into one good read By John T. Horner I'm really enjoying the Carnivia Trilogy. Of course you have to leave the author some artistic license as the descriptions of technological matters are far from perfect, and the non-high-school-textbook version of history offered are thought provoking while not necessarily being exactly right. That said, the historical tidbits cause much needed critical examination of "what everyone knows".This book is a terrific blend of travel, adventure, mystery, historical fiction and rather a lot of human dynamics. It is hard for me to find fiction I can really get into, but this one does it for me.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Second book in trilogy is a huge improvement over the first - and quite fun! By Kilgore Gagarin The final word on Jonathan Holt's THE ABDUCTION is that it is hugely entertaining. I found the first book in this trilogy, The Abomination, to be pretty entertaining as well, but the quality of writing and the much tauter plot in this second entry in the "Carnivia" series makes this a lot more fun.I must note that this is not a cyberpunk or science fiction novel despite the reference to the virtual world of "Carnivia," an exact replica of Venice, Italy, with uncrackable cryptography creating an anonymous online universe. This book (and the previous one) barely enters said universe. Instead, this is much more of a traditional modern thriller with a fast moving plot being its real strength. Watch out for some very squeamish inducing scenes of torture.I'm going to go out on a small limb and say that one needn't read the first book in this series to enjoy this book. I did read the first book so I must confess my impression here might be tainted. There are numerous references to the main characters' previous activities and backgrounds from the first book. However, overall I don't think it affects the book or understanding and following the plot as a whole. The characters are interesting, but really not that compelling and it's pretty easy to pick up on their previous relationships.Some of the things that bugged me about the first book had to do with what I thought were sometimes obscure and awkward references to Italian language (I'm bilingual), food, fashion, and culture. THE ABDUCTION benefits a lot more from some excellent editing and these features are now quite interesting and charming. I actually got hungry a couple of times when certain dishes, and their preparation, were described. The references to Italian words and phrases are consistently utilized and subsequently translated. The references to designer clothing and shoes is something to which I'm just not attuned (so that's on ME not the book).I had a blast reading this book and it's definitely a page turner! I gave the first book 3 stars, this one gets 4 stars, and I look forward to reading the third book and hope it will climb the ladder to becoming (for me) a 5 star read.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful. More of the same By Darcy Pennell When a young woman is abducted from a seedy sex club and subsequently tortured on the internet in front of millions, Kat Tapo, Holly Boland, and Daniele Barbo reunite in a race to find her before the torture ends in tragedy. The Abduction is the second installment of the Carnivia Trilogy. This book deals with themes of sexual abuse, torture, clashes between the US military and local forces abroad, and church corruption. If that sounds familiar, it is because it is. The story continues many of the same themes that began in The Abomination.Daniele Barbo is surprisingly the most interesting and sympathetic character of the group. He's also the only character who exhibits any real growth. Both Holly and Kat are stagnate in their struggles with the same issues they had in the first book.While much of the book is well-written, the bad guy's dialogue is shockingly bad. This was also true in The Abomination, but there wasn't enough of it there to distract from the story. In this installment, there is a lot of bad-guy dialogue and it's even worse than before--cliched and ridiculous.The plot moves along quickly and this is a fast read, but there are a few breakthroughs that develop from coincidences in a subplot that just doesn't ring true. The Abomination was richly plotted and the story grew in an organic matter, but The Abduction seems to take more than a few shortcuts.The Abduction isn't necessarily bad, but it feels like it is just a lazy version of The Abomination.
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