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    Abandoned: A Thriller

    Written by Cody McFadyen

    Narrated by Joyce Bean

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    For FBI special agent Smoky Barrett, the wedding of one of the Bureau's own was cause for celebration. Until a woman staggered down the aisle, incoherent, emaciated, head shaved, and wearing only a white nightgown.
    No one knows who she is or where she's come from - or why she's chosen to appear in a church filled with law enforcement agents. Then a finger-print check determines that the woman has been missing for nearly eight years - that once she was someone's wife, someone's mother . . . and a cop. Imprisoning her in a dark cell, depriving her of any contact with the outside world, her enigmatic captor was a man she didn't know and who seldom spoke, who punished her only when she failed to follow his most basic instructions designed to keep her alive.
    Cold, businesslike, seemingly indifferent to his victims, he's a predator with an M.O. as terrifyingly inscrutable as any Smoky has ever encountered. As she fits together the pieces of what remains of his victim's fractured life, a chilling picture emerges of a killer every bit as calculating, masterful, and professional as Smoky and the team she leads - a psychopath who doesn't take murder personally and never makes a mistake.
    There's a reason he let one of his victims go free. And by the time Smoky pierces the darkness of his twisted mind, it may cost her more than she can bear to lose to escape. For a trap snapped closed the moment she took this case too much to heart.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateOct 27, 2009
    ISBN9781441804198
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    Abandoned: A Thriller
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    Cody McFadyen

    Cody McFadyen lives in California. He is the author of The Darker Side, The Face of Death, and Shadow Man, which was an international bestseller.

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    • 4/5
      I exploded with delight when I realized that the package in my hands contained the latest ARC from one of my favorite authors! I literally jumped up and down and squealed like a little girl. What fun! I even set a book aside, so I could get to it immediately.In general, it was very good. However . . . I had a huge problem with a portion of the book that caused me to feel offended. Whether warranted or not, I felt that way, and it put a damper on my reading for a short time. While I did get back on track, a distasteful feeling lingered. I understand that it is viewed as a good thing when an author can evoke deep emotions from a reader. They, in essence, have done their job. Unfortunately, the feelings I had converted into dislike. I know very well that Cody's style is very bold and can make my skin crawl, but I never felt this way before. Who knows, maybe I just added another feather to his cap. :)On a better note, the plot in and of itself was complex and therefore a difficult one to solve. I enjoyed hanging with Smoky and the team as they dug their heels in to make some sense out of their present case. Despite my uncomfortable feelings, I think I would read anything written by this man. Even in the most shocking or scary scenes, he has a way with words that keep me on the edge of my seat or just plain glued to the page. This one was no different, but not a favorite. (It's the first one that didn't make my Best Reads list.) However, that has not kept me from waiting with bated breathe for #5.Originally posted on: Thoughts of Joy
    • 2/5
      I loved this book! I started the series on the wrong book, but I was able to figure most previous events well enough. This is not a happy book, but a dark, gruesome crime novel that is well written and compelling. I will go back and start from the beginning to find out how it all began. The main character has been through so much that you wonder where she finds the inner strength to go on with her work, particularly in that she is putting herself at risk for more of the same. She does find it though, and saves others, although not all others, from unimaginable horrors.
    • 5/5
      This is the fourth book from Cody McFadyen all with FBI agent Smokey Barrett as lead character. I read all four in a short time span (2ish weeks), and I will say it is a series worth reading. Abandoned is by far and away his best book, and I truly put it up there with some of the better books from the murder/mystery genre. Last 100 pages I could not put the book down I had to finish to see what happened. Which gives me hope his future works will continue on this pattern and he will continue to rise in the upper tier of great murder/mystery writers.Brief series reviewAll the books can be read as a standalone with an ending to each, but reading them in order does provide a good back story he builds off of.Shadowman- Strong first book, does a good job introducing characters, story was fast pacedThe Face of Death- Part of the book is written in a diary format and for me I just did not enjoy these sections so the book was mediocre at best for me.The Darker Side- Happy to see the story was again fast paced and a page turner, it did have a little bit of a different ending that could be called a little weak, but still a good read.Abandoned- For me this is a GREAT book, real depth to the story with plot twists throughout. When I got to the last 100 pages I could not put it down I had to finish to see what happened.
    • 5/5
      Fantastic writer. Pulls up the emotions and keeps me enthralled throughout.
    • 3/5
      Nun ja. Die ersten beiden Bände waren gut, der Dritte schon massiv ruhiger und dem letzten fehlt über weite Teile die Begeisterung. Die Geschichte plätschert recht lange lahm vor sich hin und man scheint alles schon einmal gelesen zu haben - bis alles dann zum letzten viertel des Buches ein wenig fahrt aufnimmt.

      Die wiederholte Vorstellung der Geschehnisse in den letzten Büchern ist natürlich notwendig. Aber bei manchen Serien habe ich dies wesentlich eleganter und somit spannender gelöst gelesen. Hier kommt es mir fast wie ein Lebenslauf vor, der einfach um die Geschichte des letzten Buches ein weiteres Mal ergänzt wird.

      Insgesamt ist es einfach wieder das typische:

      1. es passiert etwas schlimmes,
      2. Heldin recherchiert,
      3. Heldin kommt in Bedrängnis und
      4. am Schluss wird wieder alles gut und augenscheinlich gerecht.

      Wobei ich gestehen muss, dass 3. schon fesselt. Vielleicht deshalb, weil McFadyen die weitergehende Unversehrtheit seiner Protagonisten nicht unbedingt über die Geschichte stellt. Das verschwommene Ende ist aber trotz aller Gerechtigkeit und bei allem Pathos sehr konstruiert.

      Aufgerundete 2,5 ...
    • 4/5
      Diesmal finden wir Smoky Barrett am Anfang des Buches in glücklicher Stimmung: Tommy und sie sind in Hawaii, Kelly heiratet, alles wird gut. Die positive Grundstimmung durchzieht ungewöhnlicherweise irgendwie auch das Buch - so schlimm wie die anderen ist es nicht. Trotzdem ist es brutal genug: Ein brutaler Auftragsentführer hält Frauen gefangen, die von ihren Ehemännern aus dem Weg gewünscht werden. Wenn die Männer nach sieben Jahren bezahlt haben, werden sie getötet, wenn nicht, irreparabel lobotomiert und freigelassen.Smoky und ihr Team lassen sich auf ein gefährliches Spiel ein, um den Täter zu finden. Das Buch ist teilweise sehr spannend, die Undercover-Ermittlung fand ich z.B. unerträglich. Andererseits ist es streckenweise auch extrem langweilig, wie eben auch bei der Undercover-Ermittlung viele viele Details geschildert werden, die zum Verlauf nichts beitragen. Was mich echt ärgerte, war die Figur des Douglas Hollister. Den finde ich völlig unglaubwürdig. Schon am Anfang (ich will jetzt nichts verraten) fand ich es übertrieben, wie Alan plötzlich auf die Idee kommen konnte, da sei was. Und in der Mitte: Mit welcher Motivation hat denn Hollister seine Nachricht aus der Gefängnisbibliothek geschrieben? Da hatte er doch wirklich nichts mehr zu gewinnen. Sehr seltsam. Das ist aus meiner Sicht überhaupt eine der Schwächen der Reihe: Einerseits so psychologisch ausgefeilt zu tun und andererseits echte Hämmer drin zu haben, die psychologisch unmöglich zu erklären sind (da gibts mehrere, auch bei Smoky).Trotzdem: Mir gefiel das Buch diesmal recht gut. Es ist spannend, aber nicht so blutrünstig wie die anderen. Es hat diese für den Autor und die Heldin typische Mischung aus Naivität, Pathos, Sentimentalität und Abgebrühtheit. Und es ist wieder mal erstklassig gelesen von Franziska Pigulla.
    • 5/5
      I enjoyed reading this book. It was a good thriller and it didn't stretch too long. Smoky Barett is an FBI agent that hunts down serial killer. This time, she hunts someone who seem to be keeping is victim alive in the dark for a long time. But for the first time he release one of them alive. Written in the first person, we are carried through Smoky's mind all the way through the end of the story. I recommend it. It was entertaining.
    • 4/5
      This is the 4th in the Smoky Barrett series and as good as the previous 3. Very good, shocking and edge of the seat reading.Back Cover Blurb:The woman had been missing for almost eight years.Someone watched her, stalked her, kidnapped her, and held her captive in the dark all that time. No ransom demand. No suspects. No answers, even now that the woman has been found - alive but unbearably traumatised.Hunting a kidnapper who appears to have no motive, FBI Special Agent Smoky Barrett and her team are plunged into the most disturbing case of their careers.And then they find the others.
    • 4/5
      Good CSI-like thriller. Slightly predictable, but engaging. Discovered there are 3 books before this one with the same FBI agent character, Smoky Barrett.
    • 5/5
      This was brilliant!And I only just realised that Cody McFadyen is a guy not a woman. I think that knowing he's a guy makes his characters make more sense. I just thought that Smoky was an odd character for a woman to create, but she's still one that I completely like.I was totally holding my breath during parts of this, waiting for the killer to do something totally awful to Smoky, and to have it happen, but totally not what I'd expected, but perhaps even more awful than what I'd imagined.
    • 5/5
      Very good. I found the method of the killer to be both original and horrifying, most definately a fate worse than death. I enjoy Smoky's battle with her humanity caused by her immersion in the depravity of the killers she seeks and i find this authors books to be very hardhitting, gripping and immensely readable. Her team she works with and her inner circle are very interesting and the line often blurs but is ultimately usually not crossed. I look forward to future installments and this author is definately one of my favourites,
    • 4/5
      Smokey Barrett is not your average Special Agent: a hideously scarred and mutilated dwarf, a rape survivor whose family was slaughtered before her eyes, and a crack shot, she is none the less admired by all the women and desired by all the men in the FBI office she heads up. Smokey is investigating a series of kidnappings in which the victims are kept for up to eight years and then returned, lobotomized: the only clues they have are those planted for them by the kidnapper. Predictably, Smokey is also kidnapped and brutalized, but inexplicably released within a month with only minor mutilations: she is – understandably – mad for revenge. The book is rubbish of course but pacey, exciting first class rubbish.
    • 4/5
      The Agent Smokey Barrett thrillers are pretty exciting stories, but there is always too much explaining, interior monologue, and personal scenes among the main characters for my taste. (You'll notice, though, that I still read them....). This entry in the series has a great deal to do with hatred of women, which I found uncomfortable to read and may be why I skimmed quite a bit of it.