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Night watch / Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen.
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"Born blind, Kendra Michaels spent the first twenty years of her life living in the darkness. Then, thanks to a revolutionary medical procedure developed by England's Night Watch Project, she was given the gift of sight. Her highly-developed senses (honed during her years in the dark), combined with her new found vision, have made her a remarkable investigator, sought after by law-enforcement agencies all over the country. But her newest case finds her uncovering a deadly truth about the shadowy organization that has given her so much. Kendra is surprised when she is visited by Dr. Charles Waldridge, the researcher who gave her sight. But all is not well with the brilliant surgeon; he's troubled by something he can't discuss with Kendra. When Waldridge disappears that very night, Kendra is on the case, recruiting government agent-for-hire Adam Lynch to join her on a trail that leads to the snow-packed California mountains. There they make a gruesome discovery: the corpse of one of Dr. Waldridge's associates, brutally murdered in the freezing snow. But it's only the first casualty in a white-knuckle confrontation with a deadly enemy who will push Kendra to the limits of her abilities. Soon she must fight for her very survival as she tries to stop the killing... and unearth the deadly secret of Night Watch."-- Provided by the Publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781250075970
- ISBN: 1250075971
- ISBN: 1250076005
- Physical Description: 342 p. ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2016.
- Copyright: ©2016.
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- General Note:
- "A novel"--Front cover.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Russell Library | AF JOH (Text) | 36730000168641 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2016 September #1
When the surgeon who miraculously restored Kendra Michaels' sight after 20 years is kidnapped, there is no question that Michaels will do everything in her considerable power to rescue him. Surprising Michaels during one of her university lectures, Dr. Charles Waldridge drops cryptic warnings about his new project but vehemently warns Michaels not to press him for additional information. The last person to have been seen with him, Michaels attracts the attention of local police when he disappears, but armed with the protection and influence of FBI agent Adam Lynch and a new cohort, Jessie Mercado, Michaels is able to infiltrate the cabal hijacking Waldridge's medical research and skills. As the body count rises and threats come closer to Michaels' own door, there is no time to waste to discover Waldridge's location and put an end to those who would corrupt his life-saving medical expertise. The mother-and-son Johansen team (The Naked Eye, 2015) delivers another high-stakes, high-powered thriller in the popular Kendra Michaels series. Copyright 2014 Booklist Reviews. - Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2016 August #2
An unorthodox investigator is desperate to save her beloved mentor from possible death.Music therapist Kendra Michaels has every reason to be grateful to Dr. Charles Waldridge. Born blind, she can now see because of an experimental surgery developed by Waldridge and his colleagues in England's Night Watch Project. All the years of her blindness allowed her to develop amazing skills in hearing, smelling, and noticing tiny details others would miss. In the past she's helped the FBI and former agent Adam Lynch, whom she holds at arm's length even though he's deeply in love with her. After Kendra (Close Your Eyes, 2012, etc.) has dinner with Waldridge, who claims to be visiting California to raise funds, he goes missing . Kendra works with the police and FBI to find him but also calls on Lynch's special resources. Another member is soon added to the team: tough ex-Army private investigator Jessie Mercado, whom Waldridge had hired to watch one of his colleagues. A friend of Lynch's who's following up on the Night Watch project in England is killed soon after sending him some puzzling photos of a lab in a supposedly empty factory. At length Kendra realizes that the project Waldridge is working on has something to do with creating working organs and that someone is using all means available to force him to reveal his secrets. Despite dire warnings from Lynch and Jessie, she insists on taking part in a dangerous rescue attempt. Despite the requisite mysterious evildoers and violence, this thriller remains curiously unsatisfying, perhaps because the formidable skills the heroine displays don't include common sense. Copyright Kirkus 2016 Kirkus/BPI Communications. All rights reserved. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2016 May #2
Born blind but pulled from the dark at age 20 by a radical new medical procedure, Kendra Michaels is an acute investigator sought out by police nationwide. Alas, her latest case involves Dr. Charles Waldridge, the very man who restored her sight. With a one-day laydown on October 25.
[Page 48]. (c) Copyright 2016 Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2016 August #5
Early in bestseller Johansen and son's suspenseful fourth novel featuring Dr. Kendra Michaels (after 2015's The Naked Eye), Kendra, who was blind until she was 20, delivers a research paper on aging at Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif. Afterward, she's surprised to discover that Dr. Charles Waldridge, the British surgeon who restored her sight nine years earlier, was in the audience. The two have dinner at a nearby ocean-side restaurant, where Charles says he's come to L.A. from London on a fund-raising mission. Kendra cleverly deduces that something else is causing Charles stress, but he won't tell her what. When he later goes missing, Kendra believes foul play is involved and enlists the aid of former FBI agent Adam Lynch in her search for Charles. The danger that Kendra and Adam face increases dramatically as they get closer to the truth, as does the attraction between the two. The plot builds to a stunning conclusion. Agent: Andrea Cirillo, Jane Rotrosen Agency. (Oct.)
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