Tess Gerritsen - Vanish (2005)
Reviewed by David J. Montgomery
Vanish, the latest novel from bestselling author Tess Gerritsen, is a "high concept" thriller -- a story built around an easy-to-grasp premise that grips an audience right away and won't let go.
It begins with the body of a beautiful woman in the Boston morgue. Just another accidental death -- until she suddenly comes back to life. At the hospital, she seizes a security guard's gun and takes several hostages. One of them is homicide detective Jane Rizzoli, who is due to give birth at any moment. It is up to Rizzoli's husband, FBI agent Gabriel Dean, to get his wife and unborn child out safely.
From that basic set-up, the author weaves a spellbinding tale of government conspiracy and white slavery, with themes as current as the morning newspaper. Some of it might be a little overblown, but there's no denying the power of Gerritsen's storytelling.
Vanish is a perfect example of the best-selling thriller: action-packed, entertaining and compulsively readable.
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