New York, New Year's Eve, December 1991.
Roger's girlfriend, Carlie Donnelly, is kidnapped from Marquee Club on Tenth Avenue along with three fellow students from Stella Maris on an early graduation trip.
Paddy, Carlie's father, acting on pure paternal instinct, takes the first available flight to the city that never sleeps and brings Roger along with him. However, Dana also joins them, and the pair of young investigators puts their brains and instincts to work on their first kidnapping case. For the first time in their careers, both have a very personal stake in resolving the case as quickly as possible and bringing Carlie back home.
But there is no ransom note, and as the news threatens to become media sensational and undermine the authority of the Mayor of New York City and the NYPD, an FBI team sets up a command center at the 10th Precinct not only to locate the four kidnapped Uruguayan tourists but also to uncover something much larger and much more sinister.
Marcel Pujol wrote twelve works on a variety of topics and in different genres between 2005 and 2007: thrillers, epic fantasy, short story compilations, and also essays on serious subjects such as hysteria in parenthood and the Uruguayan prison system. In 2023, he picks up the creative pen once more and has already written nine new titles... and he's going for more!
This author cannot be identified with any single genre, but he does have a distinctive style that runs through his work:
- The plots are gripping.
- The dialogues between characters have a dynamism and adrenaline reminiscent of action films.
- The main characters evolve throughout the work, and the person who emerges from the novel may have little in common with who they were at the beginning.
- There are no perfect characters. Even the main ones range from antiheroes to characters with notable, albeit imperfect, qualities. A bit like each of us, don't you think?