Hairline Cracks - Softcover

Taylor, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0006929591 ISBN 13: 9780006929598

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, 1988

Synopsis

Sam Lydney's mother has disappeared and he is sure that this has something to do with the local power station. She read a report which revealed that there was a radioactive leak at the station, and now she has vanished. Sam is convinced that she has been kidnapped and is determined to get her back.

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From School Library Journal:

Sam's mother disappears; his divorced father nervously announces that she suddenly decided to take a vacation, and a coded message arrives via mail from her friend Davis, a journalist who has also dropped from sight. When a pair of bumbling prowlers drop some clues within Sam's hearing, he and his friend Mo are off on the hunt. After a series of chases, captures, escapes, and confrontations, the story comes out. Local businessman Victor Witcham wants to build housing on land adjacent to an old nuclear waste storage facility by suppressing reports that it has been judged unsafe; he kidnapped Sam's mother when she uncovered the scheme. In a contrived climactic scene, Witcham panics, tries to make a getaway, and drowns in the attempt. Taylor tries to enlist sympathy for Witcham by giving him a tragic past, and despite occasional threats, there's little overt violence in the story, but the nuclear waste remains an abstract danger. There are few surprises in character (the bad guys are all officious, stupid, and/or physically disfigured), and the plot is fueled by convenient coincidences. A fair British thriller. --John Peters, New York Public Library
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0006929591
• ISBN 13: 9780006929598
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 122