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Original Title: | Three Weeks to Say Goodbye |
ISBN: | 0312365721 (ISBN13: 9780312365721) |
Edition Language: | English |
Characters: | Jack McGuane, Melissa McGuane |
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Title | : | Three Weeks To Say Goodbye |
Author | : | C.J. Box |
Book Format | : | Hardcover |
Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 340 pages |
Published | : | January 6th 2009 by Minotaur Books (first published 2008) |
Categories | : | Mystery. Fiction. Thriller. Suspense |
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Jack and Melissa McGuane have spent years trying to have a baby. Finally their dream has come true with the adoption of their daughter, Angelina. But nine months after bringing her home, they receive a devastating phone call from the adoption agency: Angelina’s birth father, a teenager, never signed away his parental rights, and he wants her back. Worse, his father, a powerful Denver judge, wants him to own up to this responsibility and will use every advantage his position of power affords him to make sure it happens. When Jack and Melissa attempt to handle the situation rationally by meeting face-to-face with the father and son, it is immediately apparent that there’s something sinister about both of them and that love for Angelina is not the motivation for their actions.
As Angelina’s safety hangs in the balance, Jack and Melissa will stop at nothing to protect their child. A horrifying game of intimidation and double crosses begins that quickly becomes a death spiral where absolutely no one is safe.
How far would you go to save someone you love?
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Ratings: 3.87 From 7330 Users | 705 ReviewsCommentary Regarding Books Three Weeks To Say Goodbye
I'd probably bump this up to 2.5 stars, but this book just didn't work for me. I loved Blue Heaven, and i think I was expecting something similar. I think authors make their antagonists more interesting when they have realistic (but flawed or bad) motives. The cops in Blue Heaven were bad guys, but bad guys that grew cold and cynical and ugly over the years. The bad guys in Three Weeks were just...evil. Evil for no particular reason except that they were, I don't know, born that way? And thatJack and Melissa McGuane try having a baby. They can't. They adopt Angelina. Nine months after bringing her home, they receive news that the biological father wants his daughter back. The McGuane's find out the last thing Angelina's birth father has for his daughter is love. Jack and Melissa will stop at nothing to protect their child.As an adoptive father myself, this story takes on a personal tone. I can't imagine anyone of my nine adopted children would be taken away from us. The closest we
Jack and Melissa McGuane experience every adoption family's worst nightmare when just their nearly nine-month-old daughter is about to be declared legally their child, the birth father shows up and demands her back. Seems that his father, a powerful federal circuit court judge wants to teach the young man a lesson about responsibility. Or so he says upon first meeting the McGuanes and giving them a three week deadline to turn over Angelina to them. (He will, of course, compensate them for the
This is the first novel I've read by this author and it wasn't bad. I read it in one afternoon as it kept me glued to my seat.How would you feel after adopting a baby and finding out nine months later that you had to relenquish your parental rights to the child back to the birth father? That's exactly what happened to Jack and Melissa McGuane when they were notified the birth father had never signed the adoption papers!Worse yet, the adopted child is the granddaughter of a prominent Supreme
Excellent suspense that was hard to put down. Loved the characters especially Cody!
It was a surprisingly fast read. I was not always impressed by the way things were going, the plot choices were a bit too coincidental or far fetched at times, but... I liked it. I just hope that IRL people that are supposed to protect & to serve and uphold the law make other choices when things turn bad.
This is probably more 3.5 stars. I did like this book, the subject of it though is hard to read without getting very angry and worked up. I spent most of the book feeling tense and hoping that my guesswork would be incorrect.I will be looking for more by this author
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