The Abduction by Mark Gimenez.

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Product Details:
Publisher: Sphere First Published 2007, My Copy 2013.
Paperback. 503 Pages.
Source: Bought by myself.
Rating: 2 out of 5.
Synopsis/Blurb: Ben Brice lives alone in the New Mexico wilderness where he battles memories of Vietnam with oceans of Jim Beam. Miles away in Texas, his estranged son, John, an Internet geek-turned-billionaire, half watches his daughter Gracie's soccer game while conducting business on his cell phone. When her mother Elizabeth arrives, the coach reports that her uncle has already collected Gracie. But Gracie has no uncle -- she was kidnapped. From international best-selling author Mark Gimenez comes a terrifying thriller in which dark family secrets make the finding of ten-year-old Gracie Brice more uncertain with every passing minute. And so begins a furious race against time to save Gracie from unknown kidnappers. With the FBI camped out in the Brice mansion, the family offers a reward of $25 million. Somehow, Ben and John Brice must find Gracie before it is too late. As the story unfolds with riveting twists and turns, the reader discovers that behind the kidnapping is an extraordinary government plot that could change the course of American history. And time is running out . . .

With this book the blurb did it for me, I was so excited to read this book. I will say from the off I wasn't 100% as it did take me a few chapters to get into, but once I did start to enjoy it turned into a great page turner.
Each main character has their own background, problems and loss; Elizabeth, Gracie's Mother, when Gracie goes missing she pushes everyone away and gets mad at anyone and everyone, John, Gracie's Father, his world is turned upside down and collapses before him, Ben, Gracie's grandfather, stops drinking everyday and jumps at the chance of proving himself and helps to find Gracie and Paul Ryan, Detective, feels the same as Ben that the police have the wrong guy. Ben and Paul start to work together and put their heads together to find Gracie and I thought even though Ben had never been a brilliant Grand father he was the only one really trying to get her back.
Halfway through the book I started to not like it so much, it was too much about war and Ben and less and less about Gracie. I thought the "connection" between Gracie and Ben, was a bit far fetched for me, how he could sense she was cold or tired or alive and the way she could sense he was coming for her was to me a bit strange. You hear about twins having this pull but not between granddaughter and grandfather you don't.
*SPOILER* Towards the end I got so bored as it just turned into some war book from Ben's past and  the people who had taken Gracie was just for Revenge, which was a bit crap to me. As it had been 30 years and now they decide to kidnap his granddaughter.. I mean come on. If I am totally honest if the revenge wasn't because of some war years ago I probably would have enjoyed it, but as I don't like books about history and war all that much it ruined it for me. If you did enjoy this book far enough, but just because of the war thing it was ruined for me.

See you soon,
Laura xx