Missing Persons a hard body novel

Missing Persons a hard body novelIn Afghanistan, a US pilot is shot down during a covert mission. In New York, a mother is forced to flee with her two young children. Finding the connection between the two will lead the Private team right into a deadly trap. A wealthy businessman approaches Jack Morgan, head of Privatethe world's largest investigation agencywith a desperate plea to track down his daughter and two grandchildren, who have disappeared without a trace. What at first

an act of treachery has ripped it all away

and Jessica Kim

Charlotte knows it could also destroy her

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why black law graduates fail bar exams at four times the rate of whites

and state failure

he's been spending most of his time on the golf course

and stay calm when others are

like raising children—or not ("Why Have a Baby When You Can Just Get a Nice Potted Plant

not only in colorful scientific prose but also in engaging excerpts from poetry and philosophy

And even in traditional skills like reading and writing

As a cofounding member of The Beach Boys in the 1960s