Vanished: David Raker Novel #3 Book

For all fans of Mo Hayder's "Gone" and Michael Marshall Smith's "The Straw Men" "Vanished" is the brilliant new missing persons case in the "David Raker" series which establishes Tim Weaver as one of Britain's most talented new psychological suspense writers. No life is perfect. Everyone has secrets. For millions of Londoners the morning of 17 December is just like any other. But not for Sam Wren. An hour after leaving home he gets onto a tube train - and never gets off again. No eyewitnesses. No trace of him on security cameras. Six months later he's still missing. Out of options and desperate for answers Sam's wife Julia hires David Raker to track him down. Raker has made a career out of finding the lost. He knows how they think. And in missing person cases the only certainty is that everyone has something to hide. But in this case the secrets go deeper than anyone imagined. For as Raker starts to suspect that even the police are lying to him someone is watching. Someone who knows what happened on the tube that day. And with Raker in his sights he'll do anything to keep Sam's secrets to himself..."Vanished" marks the return of an amazing new thriller talent - Tim Weaver is all set to become a household name in the world of suspense fiction. Praise for Tim Weaver: "Impressive debut ...Fans of Mo Hayder will be in seventh hell". ("Guardian"). "Perfect plotting great characterisation and the kind of payoff that a thriller of this calibre deserves". ("Bookgeeks"). "A taut thriller". (Barry Forshaw). "Leaving the reader in little doubt that Weaver is a major new talent on the thriller scene". ("Bath Life"). Tim Weaver was born in 1977. At eighteen he left school and started working in magazine journalism and has since gone on to develop a successful career writing about films TV sport games and technology. He is married with a young daughter and lives near Bath. "Vanished" is Tim's third "David Raker" novel which follow his highly acclaimed debut "Chasing the Dead" and its sequel "The Dead Tracks". Tortured by his wife's early death David Raker is one of the most charismatic sensitive and unique missing persons investigators in current crime fiction.

Vanished : Paperback : Penguin Books Ltd : 9780241954409 : : 19 Jul 2012 : Vanished is the brilliant third instalment in the Top Ten best-selling David Raker series by Tim Weaver. No life is perfect. Everyone has secrets. For millions of Londoners, the morning of 17 December is just like any other. But not for Sam Wren. An hour after leaving home, he gets onto a tube train - and never gets off again. No eyewitnesses.