Digging too deep for family skeletons proves perilous for a young
woman searching for her disappeared father.Gross's solo debut (he's
previously collaborated with James Patterson; 2nd Chance, 2004,
etc.) has a beguiling setup rooted in the clandestine mechanics of
the Witness Protection Program, but its implausible plot will put
off more skeptical readers. The book's likable hero is Kate Raab, a
cancer researcher launching a promising career. While she also has
a model boyfriend, a seemingly perfect doctor, her most discernible
asset is a picture-perfect family comprised of her anxious Jewish
mother, a pair of precocious siblings and a princely father who
calls her "Pumpkin." It all comes crashing down when her father
Benjamin, a wealthy Manhattan gold trader, is arrested for
laundering money for a Colombia drug cartel led by Oscar Mercado.
Benjamin cooperates with the case, and the family is secreted away
under assumed identities, leaving Kate behind. Things go further
awry when a colleague of Kate's is felled during an inexplicable
drive-by shooting and the Rabb family's case worker is tortured to
death. The slim leads in the case point towards Benjamin, who
disappears into the titular Blue Zone, the FBI moniker indicating a
blown cover. Soon, Kate is stalked by a menacing Colombia fixer and
uncovers troubling duplicity on the part of her FBI handlers. With
the body count rising, Kate hunts for her missing father,
inadvertently unspooling a series of preposterous family
revelations linking her loved ones to the Mercado clan. A
sensationalistic thriller whose credibility is, by the end,
strained to the snapping point. (Kirkus Reviews)
A breathtaking novel of suspense from the co-author of five
bestselling James Patterson novels, including 'Judge and Jury' and
'Lifeguard'. THERE ARE NO RULES IN THE BLUE ZONE. They were the
perfect family. And he was the perfect family man. One day changed
it all. Arrested for racketeering, Ben Raab must take his family
into America's Witness Protection Programme. Only his eldest
daughter, Kate, chooses to stay on the outside. But the Programme's
perfect success rate is about to come to a shocking end. A case
agent is tortured to death and Ben vanishes. The one person who
might be able to find him is Kate. Pursued by killers, forced to
question everything she knows about her life so far, Kate is
plunged into a terrifying existence for which nothing has prepared
her. Most people would call it certain death. The FBI calls it the
Blue Zone.
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