8 books like Chanda's wars

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Riding the Rap Elmore Leonard · 1995 · ★ 3.9 · 326p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Debt-ridden Palm Beach playboy Warren "Chip" Ganz takes a rich man hostage. The trouble is he chooses bookmaker Harry Arno -- an expert scammer with a U.S. Marshal on his tail. When everybody's got a gun, someone's gonna get hurt. Shares: Kidnapping in fiction, Kidnapping

Huntingtower John Buchan · 1910 · ★ 3.8 · 326p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Dickson MCunn, a recently retired prosperous Scots grocer decides on a walking tour in SW Scotland as a suitable beginning to his retirement activities. To his surprise, he stumbles into a sinister plot involving kidnapping, crown jewels, and terrorism.To his surprise (and deep satisfaction) our 56 year old hero acquits himself very well, in the process proving that the Geritol crowd can and do… Shares: Kidnapping in fiction, Kidnapping

Secuestrado Danielle Steel · 1993 · ★ 3.8 · 347p · ≈ 11h · Moderate A la veille de la seconde guerre mondiale, les Patterson, Marielle, Malcolm et leur jeune fils Teddy, mènent une vie sans problèmes à New York. Marielle ne peut cependant pas oublier ces épreuves : un premier mariage rompu avec Charles Delauney, la mort tragique d'un enfant. Mais un jour, Marielle revoit son premier mari, son amour de jeunesse. Le passé ressurgit entre ces deux êtres passionnés. Shares: Kidnapping in fiction, Kidnapping

Step on a Crack James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge · 1658 · ★ 4.1 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Demanding With the unexpected death of a beloved former first lady, the nation falls into mourning as the world's most powerful people gather in New York for her funeral. Then the inconceivable occurs. Billionaires, politicians, and superstars of every kind are suddenly trapped by one man's brilliant and ruthless scenario. Pulled into the fray, Detective Michael Bennett-father of ten-faces the most… Shares: Kidnapping in fiction, Kidnapping

Back Spin Harlan Coben · 1997 · ★ 4.0 · 375p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Kidnappers have snatched the teenage son of super-star golfer Linda Coldren and her husband, Jack, an aging pro, at the height of the U.S. Open. To help get the boy back, sports agent Myron Bolitar goes charging after clues and suspects from the Main Line mansions to a downtown cheaters' motel--and back in time to a U.S. Open twenty-three years ago, when Jack Coldren should have won, but didn't.… Shares: Kidnapping in fiction, Kidnapping

The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes Diane Chamberlain · 2006 · ★ 4.1 · 496p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Twenty-eight years ago, a North Carolina governor’s young, pregnant wife was kidnapped. Now, her remains have been found and a man charged with her murder. Only one person-CeeCee Wilkes-can refute the charges against him. But CeeCee disappeared years ago. . . Eve Elliot is a successful therapist to troubled students, a loving wife, a mother deeply invested in her family. But her happiness is… Shares: Kidnapping in fiction, Kidnapping

Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson · 1886 · ★ 3.8 · 219p · ≈ 7h · Challenging KIDNAPPED is an adventure story that has become the model for any thriller of escape and suspense. Set in 1751, the flight of David Balfour and Alan Breck across the Highlands of Scotland is based on real events. Though he wrote the book to make money, while living as an invalid in Bournemouth. Stevenson was proud of it; he inscribed a presentation copy with the couplet. Here is the one sound… Shares: Kidnapping, Orphans

Splendors and glooms Laura Amy Schlitz · 2012 · ★ 3.8 · 392p · ≈ 13h · Moderate When Clara vanishes after the puppeteer Grisini and two orphaned assistants were at her twelfth birthday party, suspicion of kidnapping chases the trio away from London and soon the two orphans are caught in a trap set by Grisini's ancient rival, a witch with a deadly inheritance to shed before it is too late. Shares: Kidnapping, Orphans

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