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D'Amato uses the Windy City as an effective backdrop for her latest thriller. Chicago homicide detective Polly Kelly is faced with a cop's worst nightmare: the kidnapping of a child. Three-year-old Danni Gaston, daughter of a senator and a country singer, is snatched by a man disguised as a priest while the family visits Chicago's Holy Name Cathedral. Within hours, Danni's image appears on the Internet. Her captors have imprisoned her in a bare room with a hidden video camera that tracks her every move. It's soon clear the kidnappers have a special agenda: they want the release from prison of Johnnie Raft, leader of Bandwidth, a hate group that terrorizes via the Internet. As the world watches Danni slowly starving to death in her prison, Kelly races to outwit Bandwidth. Contrasting the plodding, "shoe-leather" approach to the dazzle of computerized crime-solving, this slick cyber-mystery is suspenseful and fast paced. Conscientious, savvy Polly effectively shows what it's like to be a successful woman in a traditionally male world. Emily Melton

From Kirkus Reviews

D'Amato's latest report from the Chicago Police Department (Good Cop, Bad Cop, 1998, etc.) focuses on a fiendishly clever crime: the kidnaping of a child. In the moment her parents are distracted, three-year-old Danielle Gaston is spirited from Holy Name Cathedral by a bogus priest. The case brings Polly Kelly, Deputy Chief of Detectives for Chicago North, to instant attention, because Danni's mother is country-music star Maggie McKittredge, and her father is Senator Neal Gaston. And after some anxious pangs toward the beginning, Polly's increasingly convinced the child is still in Chicagoprobably in the heart of the crowded Gold Coast. But can the thousand cops beating the bushes for Danni find her before she starves to death? Not only Polly but all the world can count the hours till Danni will die, because D'Amato, displaying the same fascination with computers that fueled Killer.App (1996), has updated her old-fashioned plot with a chilling new twist: The kidnappers place a digital camera in the bare, locked room where they're keeping Danni and put her live, real-time image on the Net at . So Polly can watch; Polly's clinically depressed mother, who's moved in with her just in time to have Polly camp out in her office, can watch; and anybody with a TV can watch CNN around the clock as the unwitting Danni's movements grow ever weaker. D`Amato shows a no-nonsense authority in laying out the myriad details of a police dragnet, and she endows her villainsthe crew of imprisoned cybertyrant Johnnie Raft, who thinks it's about time smart people were running the worldwith enough savvy to stay one step ahead of it. But her determination to keep her last card hidden leads her to a surprise that will have a lot of readers pursing their lips in disbelief. For most of the ride, though, the case purrs along with just enough edge to the thrills to make this a tougher complement to the author's Cat Marsala mysteries. -- Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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What a page-turner! 5. Dezember 1999

Von "susannet"

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After reading a review of this book, I knew that once I picked it up, I wouldn't be able to put it back down until I'd finished it! It kept me up 'til 2 AM! What an exciting thriller. I'm usually pretty sqeamish when it comes to children in jeopardy plots, but D'Amato really pulls this one off. I heartily recommend both this book and D'Amato's KILLER.APP to people looking for a fast paced and fabulous reading experience, and to fans of meticulously researched police procedurals.

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A Real Barn Burner! 5. Dezember 1999

Von Connie Hall

This Book grabs you from the first page,a child is taken from a church in broad daylight .Just like the Chief detective , Polly Kelly, All you want is for that child to be found, as you watch her slowly getting weaker .. Which is the best way Cyber tech or good old fashioned police work? It is a challenge all of the Characters are up to! You won't be able to put this one down until the very last word is read !

Very intense thriller 14. August 2001

Von dieleseratz

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This was the first thriller I've read by B. D'Amato and I have to stress that it will not be the last.

Very intensely told plot, real-life characters (without the very beautiful and very worked-out and very intelligent characters which normally make a thriller in the U.S.A.). And - immensely good - there is not any love-story included in this plot which in itself is very rare in a thriller. The detective work (computer and old-fashioned foot-work) is described in detail, the story is fastpaced and immensely suspenseful until the end. A really good read !