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Countdown
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When it reaches zero, you die.
#1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen sets her readers’ pulses racing once again in this relentless psychological thriller of a young woman caught in a maze of secrets and stalked by a merciless killer. The countdown begins the moment you open this riveting novel that only grows more electrifying as the pages turn, more exciting as time runs out. . . .
“Don’t kill her. She’s no good to us dead.” These words haunt Jane MacGuire after a shocking attack shatters her world in an instant. Was it a random kidnapping attempt–or the countdown to something far more sinister?
Who is after her–and what do they want so badly they’ll kill anyone in their way? That’s what Jane is determined to find out, without the help of the police, the FBI, or her adoptive parents, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan and her husband, Joe Quinn, of the Atlanta PD–because whoever is after her won’t hesitate to hurt those she loves the most. Now Jane will go on the run with the only man who may be more dangerous than those who are pursuing her. A smuggler, a con man, and who knew what else, Mark Trevor had his own mysterious reasons for wanting to keep Jane safe and out of the hands of a killer obsessed with a two-thousand-year-old mystery that could rock the modern-day world.
Orphaned at an early age, Jane grew up the hard way, but she was given a new life, a loving family, and a chance to pursue her interest in one of the greatest archaeological finds ever unearthed. Now someone was trying to destroy that new life before it could even get started. The past is returning with the kind of vengeance that knows no mercy. The countdown has already begun, and it’s approaching zero faster than anyone thinks.
#1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen sets her readers’ pulses racing once again in this relentless psychological thriller of a young woman caught in a maze of secrets and stalked by a merciless killer. The countdown begins the moment you open this riveting novel that only grows more electrifying as the pages turn, more exciting as time runs out. . . .
“Don’t kill her. She’s no good to us dead.” These words haunt Jane MacGuire after a shocking attack shatters her world in an instant. Was it a random kidnapping attempt–or the countdown to something far more sinister?
Who is after her–and what do they want so badly they’ll kill anyone in their way? That’s what Jane is determined to find out, without the help of the police, the FBI, or her adoptive parents, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan and her husband, Joe Quinn, of the Atlanta PD–because whoever is after her won’t hesitate to hurt those she loves the most. Now Jane will go on the run with the only man who may be more dangerous than those who are pursuing her. A smuggler, a con man, and who knew what else, Mark Trevor had his own mysterious reasons for wanting to keep Jane safe and out of the hands of a killer obsessed with a two-thousand-year-old mystery that could rock the modern-day world.
Orphaned at an early age, Jane grew up the hard way, but she was given a new life, a loving family, and a chance to pursue her interest in one of the greatest archaeological finds ever unearthed. Now someone was trying to destroy that new life before it could even get started. The past is returning with the kind of vengeance that knows no mercy. The countdown has already begun, and it’s approaching zero faster than anyone thinks.
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Iris Johansen
Iris Johansen is the author of over twenty novels - including Final Target, Body of Lies, No One to Trust, Dead Aim and Fatal Tide - and consistently hits the top end of the bestseller lists in America. She lives in Georgia, USA, where she is at work on a new novel.
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Reviews for Countdown
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Another novel in the Eve Duncan series where Eve is more of a supporting character, and less of a lead. In this novel, Eve's adopted daughter Jane is reunited with Mark Trevor, and new danger related to Cira put Jane's life in danger. Jane and Trevor's once forbidden chemistry is now on the table because Jane is now 21 years old...
Can Trevor protect Jane? Can they end the dangers surrounding Cira's gold once and for all? What's real? What's legend? What's lore? - Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I struggled through all 400 pages of this book because I'm an Iris Johansen fan. I've read everything else she's written and agree that the last book "Blind Alley" started a downward trend that was sadly carried through to this book. I just couldn't stay interested. This is a far cry from her earlier novels. "Countdown" is basically a recap of "Blind Alley" in my opinion with some new characters thrown in. The story is very scattered with some plot lines given so little explanation that the reader is left wondering why they're even in there.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Jane McGuire is haunted by Cira and travels to Scotland with her hoped lover, Trevor, and stays at MacDuff's in Aberdeen. Looking for gold treasure. Plot to blow up targets in US needs to be stopped by Jane, Trevor and others.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Countdown – Four years after Blind Alley, Eve Duncan’s adopted daughter Jane MacGuire is all grown up and now attending university.When Mike Fitzgerald, Eve’s adopted brother and Jane’s fellow university student is murdered during a failed kidnap attempt of Jane, it becomes obvious that the saga of Cira’s gold and the events of four years ago are far from being in Jane’s past.With Jane’s uncanny resemblance to the ancient Herculaneum woman and her brief connection to Mark Trevor, it doesn’t take long for Jane to figure out that Trevor is somehow involved. And, she is right. For as much as Cira still haunts her dreams, Trevor still nags at the back of her mind. They have unfinished business.This time around however, Jane is worth more alive than dead to Trevor’s deadly foe. And what lies in Jane’s memories of Cira is far too valuable for anyone including Trevor to pass up the opportunity to exploit.Wedged between guilt, survival, revenge and curiosity, Jane is torn between her need to learn who killed Mike and bring them to justice and her desperate desire to discover the contents of Cira’s scrolls. The coveted prize of Blind Alley that Trevor now dangles before her.But to achieve anything, she has to stay alive and Trevor’s solution is to hide her at MacDuff’s Run, a run-down castle in the Scottish Highlands. Are the answers in finding the ancient woman’s treasure hidden in the Herculaneum scrolls? And will that knowledge help to stop a ruthless terrorist from attacking the U.S., or a demented madman from taking control of Jane to further one of his experiments?In this book there are some twists and turns to the re-incarnation theme and Iris Johansen does provide some conclusion to this element of the story, but she also opens the door wide for yet another instalment in Jane and Trevor’s story.I didn’t enjoy Countdown as much as I did with Blind Alley, but it was definitely worth the read.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5This is the first Eve Duncan novel I've read. Really too much action for me, there is shooting, kidnapping, beheading, explosions, etc … I did like Jane, a young college student involved in an archeological mission to find gold coins and translate scrolls from the days of Pompeii. Jane is said to resemble ancient beauty Chira. Maybe she channels the spirit of Chira, because her dreams about Chira seemed to coincide somehow with the drama she was going through in real life. As the story ends with Chira and Antonio in the childbirth scene, I began to wonder if the next novel might begin with Jane and Trevor experiencing parenthood themselves. I also liked the descriptive way Chira referred to her passionate life with Antonio.... "Velvet nights, silver mornings."
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Jane is now finished college and running for her life. Mark Trevor is the only person who can help her stay alive. He has more proof of what happened to Cira, some documents, and he's getting them translated. Meanwhile there are more twists and turns.There's almost too many twists and turns, it's as if Johansen needs to add more excitement to the story but it just seems to drag the story down. Interesting to see what's happening to the characters but really it didn't excite me.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A was taken on a mesmerizing journey, I kept thinking I knew what was coming but it was never as I expected. Fabulous.