Out of Range: A Novel
Hank Steinberg
Language: English
Pages: 346
ISBN: 0062080539
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
From the creator of the hit television series Without a Trace, Hank Steinberg's Out of Range is an action-packed thriller in which a husband searches for his missing wife—a hunt that leads him into a dangerous world of international espionage.
Six years ago in Uzbekistan, journalist Charlie Davis was wounded when the government fired on a group of protestors he was covering on assignment. He and his pregnant wife, Julie, barely escaped with their lives.
On a trip to Disneyland with their children, Julie vanishes. As Charlie soon discovers, this isn’t a random abduction. The further he goes to find her, the more it becomes clear that Julie isn’t quite the person she seems to be. She’s been harboring dark secrets that have come back to terrorize them all.
Out of Range is a scintillating tale, full of twists and surprises that will keep you guessing until the final page.
you wouldn’t want the children to hear.” Charlie got a frigid feeling from Mitchell, particularly given the circumstances. Unlike the detectives, she had neither offered her hand nor met his eyes. But Charlie knew that the detectives were correct. This was standard procedure and there was going to be plenty to discuss that the children shouldn’t hear. “It’ll just be a few minutes,” Charlie told his kids. “Give me a hug, huh, then go with this nice lady.” Charlie watched them walk
too. The sinking feeling that he had absolutely no idea what he was walking into. Byko had been a playboy in his heyday but what was going on here was something close to pedophilia. What had Alisher Byko become? Back in the car, the first thought that ran through Charlie’s mind was that Byko must be a deranged lunatic. A drug-addled, lonely, love-struck guy who’d thought he had a chance at seducing Julie. That he’d lured her to Uzbekistan under false pretenses and then when it hadn’t gone the
screen at the front of the War Room. He was so angry he could barely concentrate on what he saw in front of him. He had never really expected that Byko would reach out to Los Angeles to snatch Julie, but he’d known that retribution against her was possible, and he’d asked Bryce to organize a protection detail for her until Byko had been neutralized. Bryce had categorically refused. His explanation was that Julie Davis bore dual UK–American citizenship. As an American citizen, she was
in the agony of an individual. How Julie had been treated here was well beyond what was called for and Byko regretted it. Particularly because it cost him the moral high ground he so dearly coveted. As he cared for her, Byko began to feel something odd. A tender nostalgia for the halcyon days of their youth and a particular memory of a cold, rainy day at Cambridge. It was mid-December, and Julie had insisted they stay at school for the holidays. Against all of his better judgment, she’d
a long pause. “Actually, we’ve already got a bird on that location.” Hopkins felt his face grow hot. “And when the hell were you planning to tell us about that?” “Hey, hey, easy, pal. You asked us to check out the whole area. So that seemed like our next logical step.” “Might have been nice if you’d told us.” “Nothing’s popped up yet, okay? But we’re on it.” How many birds did the Americans have? How many locations were they watching? It was a waste of time even asking. He’d