Fifteen years have passed since Jim North was abducted. He and another boy were placed in a cage and subjected to unspeakable horrors. But what haunts Jim more than his abduction is his escape. After abandoning the other boy who was captured, Jim has spent his life searching for him. Now, as a detective in Seattle’s Fifth Precinct, Jim and his partner, Kerry Martin, will have a second chance to … to solve the case.
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Detectives Jim North and Kerry Martin have tragic and violent pasts which makes their involvement in a missing person case personal. The stakes are raised when Kerry’s son is kidnapped with two other children. Hunt shows the anguish and anger Kerry goes through and keeps the pressure on using time pieces ticking away until each child is killed or rescued.
It’s hard to believe a person’s mind could be so twisted.
I have read the whole series.
This book is very intense once you start it plan to read to the end. I found it impossible to put down. I was so involved in this story I was in tears by the powerful ending.
Sad and tragic story with a satisfying ending.
Likeable true to life characters.
Liked the characters…….enjoyable, read the book in two days.
Great read and quite a page turner.
This is a spell binding page turner! I had a hard time putting it down once I started reading. Some of it was more horrifying than I like to read but once I started reading, I had to continue to the end,
Although a hard story to read, extreme child abuse with a very twisted villain, It nevertheless had me crying with the detective at the resolution of the situation. Gave me some hope in humanity and the power of forgiveness.
Great characters. Original. We’ll done.
Love this series.
If you are familiar with Seattle and the Pacific NW I don’t recommend this book. The references to areas supposedly close to Seattle are in many cases 50-100 miles away in reality. And the ability to travel in minutes is not even possible. Living in this area it was very distracting to read this book with so much off with the locations. Also, there are numerous grammar errors as well.
The plot kept my interest. The characters were not as deep or real as I prefer. I was disappointed that the ending had a tragic end (a peripheral character’s dead son was ignored in the relief of the protagonists in avoiding their own tragedy).
This is the second book I’ve read in this series. Original and a great read.
The more I read the more intriged I was. Very hard to put down once I got into it.
This one will send chills down your spine. I look forward to more books from James Hunt.
“Lost and Found” by James Hunt is a book readers will not be able to put down until the very end. James Hunt introduces us to Jim North, a Seattle detective who was kidnapped 15 years before the book begins. He is haunted by what happened to him, remembering that he was put into a cage with metal bars, right next to the cage in which another boy was imprisoned and continually raped and beaten by the man who abducted him. He has scars on his hands from the bars on the cage. Jim was able to escape but could not help the boy in the other cage and constantly remembers the look on the boy’s face and the boy’s voice pleading with Jim to help him escape too. Jim, only eleven years old at the time, tried to help the boy but could not and finally just ran away. Now Chris Benson, a thirteen year old boy riding home on his bike from his baseball game, is kidnapped. His frantic mother reports him missing and Jim and his colleagues follow the path the boy always took home from his baseball games and find his bike and baseball glove. After a search through the woods using a dog from Seattle’s K-9 Unit, the police find an old shed. In the shed they find a cage filled with human remains. Jim knows this is the same shed he escaped from and the remains are those of the boy he could not save. His anxieties and guilt about leaving the other boy and the pains in the scars in his hands escalate. He knows that Chris Benson was abducted by the same man that kidnapped him. Then two other children are also kidnapped. Jim and his partner Detective Kerry Martin search for the missing children. Readers can hardly stop reading the book. I know they will be right beside Jim North and Kerry Martin in their searches and hope with them that the children will be found alive and their abductor finally punished.
Jim and Kerry seek the killers that keep them and their local world awake at night. At the 51, these detectives are singularly unique: both of their fathers are killers.
Along the way they feel pieces of themselves and their families slip away, some ripped away by vengeful others as they try to build piece of their lives and families anew.
Horrifying and inspiring with strong personal insights