Enthralling . Holt deftly avoids prurience or gratuity while conveying the horror of walling, waterboarding, and similar practices raising troubling questions about how the U.S. defines its allies and foes, and how it treats both. --Publishers Weekly"
Holt gives us excruciating suspense in the kidnapping narrative, suspense that s heightened by also presenting the victim s shifting point of view, from a benign This is a matter of business to unraveled terror. --Booklist"
"Enthralling.... Holt deftly avoids prurience or gratuity while conveying the horror of walling, waterboarding, and similar practices... raising troubling questions about how the U.S. defines its allies and foes, and how it treats both."--Publishers Weekly
"Holt gives us excruciating suspense in the kidnapping narrative, suspense that's heightened by also presenting the victim's shifting point of view, from a benign 'This is a matter of business' to unraveled terror."--Booklist
The sensational second thriller in the internationally bestselling Carnivia Trilogy, from the same author as the Sunday Times Bestseller, The Girl Before.