Vanishing
Act
Thomas Perry
Fiction - Mystery - Suspense - Thrillers | Fawcett | Paperback | March 1996 | $6.99 | 0-8041-1387-4
"A CHALLENGING AND SATISFYING THRILLER. . .[WITH] MANY SURPRISING
TWISTS. " -The New York Times
Jane Whitefield is a Native American guide who leads people out
of the wilderness--not the tree-filled variety but the kind created
by enemies who want you dead. She is in the one-woman business
of helping the desperate disappear. Thanks to her membership in
the Wolf Clan of the Seneca tribe, she can fool any pursuer, cover
any trail, and then provide her clients with new identities, complete
with authentic paperwork. Jane knows all the tricks, ancient and
modern; in fact, she has invented several of them herself.
So she is only mildly surprised to find an intruder waiting for
her when she returns home one day. An ex-cop suspected of embezzling,
John Felker wants Jane to do for him what she did for his buddy
Harry Kemple: make him vanish. But as Jane opens a door out of
the world for Felker, she walks into a trap that will take all
her heritage and cunning to escape....
"Thomas Perry keeps pulling fresh ideas and original characters
out of thin air. The strong-willed heroine he introduces in Vanishing
Act rates as one of his most singular creations." -The New York Times Book Review
"ONE THRILLER THAT MUST BE READ... Perry has created his most
complex and compelling protagonist." -San Francisco Examiner