From the UK to Paris to Asia, and back again – a girl’s life hangs in the balance.
Through his successful corporate business, Adam Park once used his expertise, money, and technology to penetrate the murky British underworld where he rescued missing and vulnerable people. Now, secluded amid a quiet life of surfing and travel, his former mentor sends a new client his way, one Adam cannot turn his … his back on.
After his initial inquiries prove a troubled young woman crossed paths with a ruthless criminal, Adam is propelled into an international mystery spanning two continents. To survive ruthless traffickers, confront corrupt law enforcement, and return the girl safely, Adam must burn down his concepts of right and wrong, and draw upon violent facets of his psyche that he has long denied exist.
Because Adam is a good person.
Isn’t he?
The Dead and the Missing takes the reader on a journey that launches a PI from the relative safety of the corporate world to the hard-boiled existence required to get the job done. At any cost to his soul.
If you like suspense filled, international mystery & crime adventures and tough private investigators who simply won’t quit, pick up the first Adam Park thriller today.
Review from Readers’ Favourite:
The Dead and the Missing is loaded with twists and turns and excitement, and had me holding my breath in fear several times… A.D. Davies is a very talented author.
Adam Park Books in Order
The Dead and the Missing
A Desperate Paradise
The Shadows of Empty Men
Night at the George Washington Diner (novella)
Master the Flame
Under the Long White Cloud
Adam Park Novels 1-3 Box Set
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An armchair dive into the underbelly of the world. Slightly noir. Brilliant story-telling.
stopped after 5 chapters, just could not get into the writing of the book.
I really enjoyed the story but at times a bit too motcho man for me. Way too many risks taken for this guy to be believeable.
The story is full of surprising turns and twists. It isn’t simply black and white, but it contains different shades of grey.
I had some mixed emotions about this book and a statement by one of the bad guys in the book sums it up pretty well “You are more interested in the characters than in trying to rescue them”. Still it is very entertaining and has lots of twists and turns to keep the pages turning.
OMG! I could not put it down! I don’t know how the surfer dude managed to survive all his beatings! Great read!
Hard to keep the people separate.
I did not like this book, but that is a matter of choice – I just do not appreciate the British way of things.
The characters are wonderful. They include the hero, Adam Park, who really seems to care about doing the right thing and his ex-partner Harry, and the dark characters of Roger Gorman who wants to have Adam declared unfit psychologically so he could take over Adam’s investigating and security business (Park Avenue Investigations) and Curtis Benson, the owner of the strip club, Blazing Seas, and other underworld business ventures and Benson’s thugs, Mikey and many others. After two years of trying to put himself back together again psychologically, Adam returns to try to find Sarah Stiles for her sister Carolyn Stiles. Adam’s run-ins with the various characters and his attempts to find Sarah make the book very hard to put down until the very end. Benson gives Adam only a week to find Sarah and the club’s doorman, Gareth Delingpole because they have supposedly stolen money and other things from Benson’s safe. Benson threatens one of the girls in his club, Lily, who told Adam about working with Sarah, with unimaginable horrors if Adam does not succeed.
It easy to read not my cup of tea
Good descriptions of various parts of the world.
Dark and graphic at times
This is the second book of his, I read. The first I read was, “His first, His Second. Both start out reasonably well and entertaining but after around a middle or so they sague into one impossible, unimaginable, unrealistic to the max story which not only distructs from the otherwise good writing and good Birt police work. So much so of a letdown that I am not a taker anymore. But someone else? Who knows?
A lot of possibilities in the plot. I want the characters and story to get better which the stage is set for.
Read and thoroughly enjoyed. Suspenseful, entertaining, and great story line.
Had a LOT of fast paced action in it and loved the characters.