Caught /
Coben, Harlan, 1962-
Caught / Harlan Coben. - 388 pages 24 cm.
17-year-old Haley McWaid is a good girl, the pride of her suburban New Jersey family, captain of the lacrosse team, headed off to college next year with all the hopes and dreams her doting parents can pin on her. Which is why, when her mother wakes one morning to find that Haley never came home the night before, and three months quickly pass without word from the girl, the community assumes the worst. Wendy Tynes is a reporter on a mission, to identify and bring down sexual predators via elaborateand nationally televisedsting operations. Working with local police on her news program Caught in the Act, Wendy and her team have publicly shamed dozens of men by the time she encounters her latest target. Dan Mercer is a social worker known as a friend to troubled teens, but his story soon becomes more complicated than Wendy could have imagined. In a novel that challenges as much as it thrills, filled with the astonishing tension and unseen suburban machinations that have become Cobens trademark, Caught tells the story of a missing girl, the community stunned by her loss, the predator who may have taken her, and the reporter who suddenly realizes she cant trust her own instincts about this storyor the motives of the people around her.
9780525951582 (hardcover)
2010002056
Women journalists--Fiction.
Teenage girls--Fiction.
Missing persons--Fiction.
Abduction--Fiction.
Sex offenders--Fiction.
Suburban life--New Jersey--Fiction.
Suspense fiction.
PS3553.O225 / C38 2010
813/.54
Caught / Harlan Coben. - 388 pages 24 cm.
17-year-old Haley McWaid is a good girl, the pride of her suburban New Jersey family, captain of the lacrosse team, headed off to college next year with all the hopes and dreams her doting parents can pin on her. Which is why, when her mother wakes one morning to find that Haley never came home the night before, and three months quickly pass without word from the girl, the community assumes the worst. Wendy Tynes is a reporter on a mission, to identify and bring down sexual predators via elaborateand nationally televisedsting operations. Working with local police on her news program Caught in the Act, Wendy and her team have publicly shamed dozens of men by the time she encounters her latest target. Dan Mercer is a social worker known as a friend to troubled teens, but his story soon becomes more complicated than Wendy could have imagined. In a novel that challenges as much as it thrills, filled with the astonishing tension and unseen suburban machinations that have become Cobens trademark, Caught tells the story of a missing girl, the community stunned by her loss, the predator who may have taken her, and the reporter who suddenly realizes she cant trust her own instincts about this storyor the motives of the people around her.
9780525951582 (hardcover)
2010002056
Women journalists--Fiction.
Teenage girls--Fiction.
Missing persons--Fiction.
Abduction--Fiction.
Sex offenders--Fiction.
Suburban life--New Jersey--Fiction.
Suspense fiction.
PS3553.O225 / C38 2010
813/.54