Long Lost - Softcover

Morrell, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0446611948 ISBN 13: 9780446611947

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing, 2003

Synopsis

Gone Once For years, Brad Denning wondered whether his younger brother was dead or alive. He wondered who took him, or if Petey had simply run away. Now, on a Denver street, Brad is jolted by a man calling out his name. A man claiming to be his long lost brother. Twice Burned But the reunion is short-lived. Suddenly, Petey is gone again. And so is Brad's family. This time, Brad is going after him: to find the truth, to find his family. To enter a murderous game that stretches into the past...and will culminate in one final moment of revenge.

About this title

About the Author:

My father was killed during World War II, shortly after I was born in 1943. My mother had difficulty raising me and at the same time holding a job, so she put me in an orphanage and later in a series of boarding homes. I grew up unsure of who I was, desperately in need of a father figure. Books and movies were my escape. Eventually I decided to be a writer and sought help from two men who became metaphorical fathers to me: Stirling Silliphant, the head writer for the classic TV series "Route 66" about two young men in a Corvette who travel America in search of themselves, and Philip Klass (whose pen name is William Tenn), a novelist who taught at the Pennsylvania State University where I went to graduate school from 1966 to 1970. The result of their influence is my 1972 novel, First Blood, which introduced Rambo. The search for a father is prominent in that book, as it is in later ones, most notably The Brotherhood of the Rose (1984), a thriller about orphans and spies. During this period, I was a professor of American literature at the University of Iowa. With two professions, I worked seven days a week until exhaustion forced me to make a painful choice and resign from the university in 1986. One year later, my fifteen-year-old son, Matthew, died from bone cancer, and thereafter my fiction tended to depict the search for a son, particularly in Fireflies (1988) and Desperate Measures (1994). To make a new start, my wife and I moved to the mountains and mystical light of Santa Fe, New Mexico, where my work changed yet again, exploring the passionate relationships between men and women, highlighting them against a background of action as in the newest, Burnt Sienna. To give his stories a realistic edge, he has been trained in wilderness survival, hostage negotiation, executive protection, antiterrorist driving, assuming identities, electronic surveillance, and weapons. A former professor of American literature at the University of Iowa, Morrell now lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

From AudioFile:

Neal Patrick Harris, alias Doogie Howser, narrates this action-packed tale of suspense with distinction. Brad Denning is complacently enjoying his life as a successful architect with a terrific wife, Kate, and son, Jason. Then his long-lost brother, Petey, who was kidnapped as a child, finds him and kidnaps Kate and Jason. Brad's attempts to find them are riveting and hair-raising, and Harris's portrayal is at once dramatic and poignant. Harris's perfect timing and creative characterizations build the atmosphere of panic and fear. His reading is flawless and smooth, helping to make the scary and unexpected ending believable. S.C.A. © AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0446611948
• ISBN 13: 9780446611947
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 384