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The Abduction: Theodore Boone
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The Abduction: Theodore Boone

Written by John Grisham

Narrated by Richard Thomas

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

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Theodore Boone is back in a new adventure and the stakes are higher than ever.

When his best friend, April, disappears from her bedroom in the middle of the night, no one, not even Theo Boone-who knows April better than anyone-has answers.

As fear ripples through his small hometown and the police hit dead ends, it's up to Theo to use his legal knowledge and investigative skills to chase down the truth and save his best friend.

Filled with the suspense that made John Grisham a #1 international bestseller and the undisputed master of the legal thriller, Theodore Boone's trials and triumphs will keep listeners guessing until the very end.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateJun 14, 2011
ISBN9781101526293
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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Abduction by Robin Cook is a departure from his usual genre of medical mystery thriller. It suffers from some of the problems found in some of his other books, namely one dimensional flat characters.It is however a rather imaginative and interesting journey to an undersea civilisation which is far more advanced than our own.I did feel like the ending was a bit of a fizzler.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Great book it has got in good. Like the thriller

  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I finished this book thinking that it was written by a different author than the first volume in the series. It had the feel of the 39 Clues where each book is written by a different author and the continuity is a little rough between volumes. This had the same feel although perhaps Grisham wrote them at the same time and therefore didn't know exactly where his characters were headed before the second volume started. On the whole I wasn't impressed although it still rates three stars.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I think Theo Boone, Kid Lawyer (or as the covers of the paperbacks have it "Half the Man, Twice the Lawyer") is my Flavia de Luce. I didn't take as well to Flavia's personality as others have, but Grisham's 13-year-old legal fanatic is just my cup of tea. In this one, Theo's good friend April has disappeared in the middle of the night, and he was the last one to speak to her. He knows something about her troubled home life that could be important, but he promised April he wouldn't tell anyone...so how can he help find her without betraying her confidence? Lots of irresponsible adult behavior gives Theo a chance to do what the police are unable to manage...track down April's ne'er-do-well Dad and figure out what really happened to her.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Theodore Boone's best friend, April, whose parents are estranged and dysfunctional, has disappeared from her bedroom in the dead of night. When the police are unable to make any headway and April is feared dead, Theo puts his own detective skills to the task. A good, semi-suspenseful book for younger readers that holds the interest of the grownup reader (me).
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I found the mystery slight (even for a juvenile), the characters uncaptivating, and the narrative pedestrian.The protagonist did things I do not credit (having raised five boys and being active in scouting), and the mystery itself was unsatisfying.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This is the second book that John Grisham has written about Theodore Boone who is a 13 year old son of two lawyers. Theodore is a detective/lawyer himself who wants to be a judge because "In what other job can an entire room of people, regardless of their age, job or education, be required to stand in solemn respect as you enter the room? Theo could think of only three - queen of England, president of the United States, and judge." In this book, Theodore's friend April has disappeared and is presumed to have been kidnapped by her uncle who had been her pen pal and who had recently escaped from prison. The book is well written and exciting and I was laughing out loud at the scene with the parrot in Animal Court. I loved the book and thought it was fantastic!
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I read this book with my 11 year old nephew. It was a great book to read and discuss together.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    This is my first outing with a John Grisham novel though I am familiar with his stories form their film adaptations. I think that may not have been the best novel fo his to start with as I felt it lacked depth and intrigue. I won't give up and will try a more adult novel of John Grishams.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    There wasn't much in the way of courtroom/legal procedure in this installment except for a couple unrelated events thrown in. More about police work and tracking down a kid without much suspense.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    Scroll down for the review in English.


    Me gustó el primer libro, pero El Secuestro fue una gran decepción y no se lo recomendaría a nadie, ni siquiera a niños. Lo mejor que puede decir de él es que fue corto y rápido.

    El comportamiento de Theo es… confuso. Se comporta a veces como un adulto, pero luego, en la página siguiente, se está comportando como un bebé que no ha conseguido lo que quería. ¡Se supone que tiene trece años, no cinco! El que algunas personas, incluso adultos, se comporten como niños a veces es aceptable, pero está falta de consistencia me pareció demasiado extrema y pasaba demasiado a menudo para ser creíble. Además, es demasiado arrogante para ser agradable. Creo que era mucho más agradable en el primer libro. Puede que sea porque sus casos eran mucho más claros en el primer libro, así que era más fácil estar de su parte. Hay una escena en este libro, en la que defiende a un loro que está causándole muchos problemas a una escuela de equitación, porque está asustando a los caballos. Me dio la impresión que el lector debe ponerse del lado de Theo, porque se trata toda la situación como si fuera un chiste en el que Theo gana, pero me molestó que nadie, ni siquiera los adultos en la sala, se diera cuenta de cómo de seria podría haber llegado a ser la situación. Una niña se rompió un brazo porque el loro asustó al caballo, pero podría haber acabado con lesiones más serias.

    Toda la investigación policial es un desastre. No dice mucho de la policía de la ciudad el que un par de chicos de trece años encuentren a uno de los sospechosos más obvios, cuando la policía ni siquiera consideró que esa persona era lo suficientemente importante para investigarla. Me suele gustar esta clase de libros de investigaciones juveniles, pero éste fue demasiado absurdo.

    No odié este libro y, dado que la biblioteca tiene la serie entera y que me gustó el primer libro, voy a darle una oportunidad al tercero, pero puede que no termine la serie si el tercer libro también me decepciona.

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    I liked the first book, but The Abduction was a huge disappointment and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone, not even kids. The best thing that I can say about it is that it was short and fast.

    Theo's behaviour is... confusing. He behaves like an adult sometimes, but then, on the next page, he's behaving like a toddler who didn't get what he wanted. He’s supposed to be thirteen, not five! That some people, even adults, behave like children sometimes is fine, but I found this lack of consistency too extreme and it happened too often to be believable. Also, he's too arrogant to be likeable. I think he was much more likable in the first book. Maybe it's that his cases in the first book were much clearer, so it was easier to side with him. There's a scene in this book where he defends a parrot, who is causing a lot of trouble to a riding school because he's scaring the horses. I got the impression that the reader is supposed to side with Theo because the whole situation is treated like a joke where Theo wins, but it bothered me that nobody, not even the adults in the room, realised how serious the situation could have been. A young girl got a broken arm because the parrot scared a horse, but she could have ended up with very severe injuries.

    The whole police investigation is a mess. It doesn't say much of the town's police if a couple of thirteen year olds can find one of the obvious suspects when the police didn't even consider that person important enough to be investigated. I usually like this kind of kid investigation books, but this one was just too absurd.

    I didn't hate this book and, as the library has the whole series and I liked the first book, I am going to give the third one a chance, but I may not finish the series if the third book disappoints me as well.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    3.5 Stars. This is an enjoyable book and I am enjoying the series. Very light and easy reading. However I do feel the Mickey Bolitar books by Harlan Coben has put these books in the shade. A good read for children aged between 10 and 14 I feel. I will continue with the series.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    This is not something I would have read on my own. Theodore's best friend April disappears one night and the whole town is up in arms. They fear she has been kidnapped and possibly murdered. Theodore and his friends run a much wider investigation then the police do and eventually turn up April.

  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Fascinating and engaging sci-fi. Using some humor and imagination, Robin Cook has creating a fun read. Well thought out.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Okay, first I must admit that I wasn’t paying attention to what I was checking out at the library. I listened to this book, checked out from the online library. I looked at the title and the cover and thought “okay, that looks different.” I’d never read Cook before, so I checked it out and added it to the TBR. Then, I started it…..I DO NOT do aliens. And while the Interterrans aren't necessarily aliens, they are not exactly human. So, to say that I actually finished this book says something. After getting into it a few chapters, I went back to the net and looked up the book description. (Should probably have done that before I checked this out.) Anyway, I decided that I was far enough in and slightly interested, so I continued on.Cook is a fantastic writer. He’s intelligent and incredibly imaginative. The content and plot of this book is so beyond believable that I couldn’t help but get interested. Even though I found myself rolling my eyes a few times.The start of the book is set out in the ocean. There is a large drilling operation underway. The president of the company is on board the ship observing these operations since there have been recent difficulties. He boards a submersible with a scientist and captain to go under the water and check out the drilling apparatus. Three divers also enter the water. They will be the ones who actually work on the drilling rig, while the submersible observes. While waiting for the divers to reach depth, the other three venture west to check out a ridge. They are sucked into a deep whole. Shortly after, the divers, in search of the submersible, are also sucked into the whole. Once reunited, they are all in an underground world, much different than our own.The majority of the book describes life in this underground world. And while not aliens, per se, they are humans much different in their own ways. While the life there in Interterra was thought to be similar to Heaven, the crew wanted to go back to earth as they knew it. Overall, I’m okay with the fact that I spent time finishing this book. It was a little interesting and did allow my mind to drift. Unless scientific stories such as these are your thing, I can’t recommend this to you. Otherwise, be my guest! It wasn’t bad!
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    Being a long time fan of Robin Cook, I looked forward to reading this one. I experienced a bit of let down with Abduction however. I was not especially enamored with the story. It's about a group of oceanographers who dive deep into the sea to make repairs on a submersible research ship...but what they find is much more than they expected. They stumble upon an underground world, very different than the world above the water. I found myself looking forward to the end of the book very quickly, because, along with being just plain dumb, it seemed that the author was trying to fill the pages with ideas that did not flow together very well. It was so far removed from Dr. Cook's normal genre, I felt rather disappointed that I didn't get my "fix" of what he does best: medical thrillers. I would not recommend this book.