Kidnapping Obsession

In Obsession, John Douglas once again takes us fascinatingly behind the scenes, focusing his expertise on predatory crimes, primarily against women. With a deep sense of compassion for the victims and an uncanny understanding of the perpetrators, Douglas looks at the obsessions that lead to rape...

When a series of suspicious fires leaves multiple victims dead in their homes, NYPD hostage negotiator Abby Mullen knows in her bones that the terrors of her childhood have returned. As a young girl, she narrowly escaped a fire set by Moses Wilcox, a fanatical cult leader who’s been presumed dead for thirty years. These murders have his fingerprints all over them.

As a child, Abby Mullen escaped the insidious Wilcox cult when it literally went down in flames. Years later, she’s the NYPD’s best hostage negotiator and a mother. She thought the worst part of her life was behind her. Until now. Armed conspiracy theorists called the Watchers have attacked the local high school - and taken her daughter hostage. With the delusional Watchers holding her child at gunpoint, the unflappable Abby might be at her breaking point. But the clock is ticking on her daughter’s life.

I should’ve trusted him, believed him when he told me he was only trying to keep my safe. I thought the worst was behind me. Little did I know the worst was yet to come. Kidnapped by a man capable of the worst kind of evil, I am thrust into a dark and dangerous world where blood and wealth are the only things that matter. I’m a pawn in the war for power. The man I was desperate to escape from is now the only one that can save me. I’ll do anything to be back in his arms. He saved me once; he’ll do it again.

In den düsteren Schatten der Vergangenheit gehüllt, kämpft Sloane gegen die Ketten ihrer Erinnerungen. Im zarten Alter von achtzehn Jahren einst entführt, wurde sie Zeuge von schrecklichen Grausamkeiten. Als sie sich auf eine Brieffreundschaft mit einem Gefängnisinsassen einlässt, ahnt sie nicht, dass sie damit die Pforte zu ihrer eigenen Hölle öffnet. In einem Tanz aus Dunkelheit und Verlangen werden die Grenzen zwischen Gut und Böse verwischt, während Sloane sich in einem Strudel aus Leidenschaft und Rache verliert.