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    Chasing the Night
    Chasing the Night
    Chasing the Night
    Audiobook (abridged)5 hours

    Chasing the Night

    Written by Iris Johansen

    Narrated by Jennifer Van Dyck

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    About this audiobook

    A CIA agent's two-year-old child was stolen in the night as a brutal act of vengeance. Now, eight years later, this torment is something Catherine Ling awakens to every day. Her friends, family, and colleagues tell her to let go, move on, accept that her son is never coming back. But she can't. Catherine needs to find someone as driven and obsessed as she is to help her—and that person is Eve Duncan. She knows that Eve shares her nightmare, since closure is also something that eludes Eve after the disappearance of her daughter Bonnie. Now, Eve must take her talents as a forensic sculptor to another level, using age progression as a way to unite Catherine with her child. As Eve gets drawn deeper into Catherine's horror, she must face looming demons of her own.

    Bonnie's killer is still out there. And a new killer is taunting Eve and Catherine at every turn. Is Catherine's son alive, or not? These two women endure the worst fear any mother can imagine in Iris Johansen's latest thrill ride, a gut-wrenching journey into the darkest places of the soul.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateOct 19, 2010
    ISBN9781441885463
    Chasing the Night
    Author

    Iris Johansen

    Iris Johansen is the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Night, Blood Game, Eve, and Eight Days to Live, among others. She began writing after her children left home for college, and first achieved success in the early 1980s writing category romances. In 1991, she began writing suspense historical romance novels, and in 1996 she turned to crime fiction, with which she has had great success. She lives near Atlanta, Georgia.

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    • 2/5
      An okay read but somewhat formulaic in my opinion in that the main characters are always off to save the world in recent books.
    • 2/5
      Eve Duncan is on another case, this time trying to save an 11 year old boy who has been separated from his mother for 9 years. Instantly forgettable.
    • 3/5
      Maybe I'm a bit too Pollyanna, but I just found it difficult to believe that the situation created by the CIA in this book could ever happen to the extent described in this book. A US Citizen child was kidnapped at age two and allowed to be held for a period of 8 years by a known Russian captor simply for the information he was able to provide?!?! (Being a argent reader of thrillers and mysteries I somewhat doubt this, but I'll allow that it's possible) In addition, to CIA Agent Venable’s character, I also found Kelly, a 14 year-old child genius, just I little too demanding on my suspension- of-belief levels. The read was entertaining but I wasn't buying it enough to be fully engrossed.
    • 5/5
      I was excited to hear I received Chasing the Night for early review. I was growing tired of the Eve Duncan series and hoped this one would revive my interest. After finishing this book in just one day I would say this series is again one of my favorites. It drew me in from the beginning and kept me hooked throughout. It had plenty of action and heart-wrenching moments. But what I liked most was that Iris added 3 new characters that I hope will continue to appear in her future Eve Duncan books. This one is definitely a five-star!
    • 4/5
      classic johansen. great plot, good introduction of new characters I hope we will see again and an ending that leaves me anxiously waiting for the next book.
    • 5/5
      A CIA Agent's 2 year old was kidnapped 8 years ago, and his mother goes to forensic sculptor Eve Duncan for help with age progression. At first reluctant, Eve is quickly drawn deeper into the horror. While a bit typical of an Eve Duncan novel at the beginning, it quickly became fascinating, with twists that had me turning the pages quickly and biting my nails awaiting the next installment in the Eve Duncan series!
    • 5/5
      Chasing the Night is Iris Johansen at her finest and the best book in the Eve Duncan forensic series in a while. While the story focuses on a new character, Catherine Ling and her mission in life to find her son, Luke, there is still plenty of Eve, Joe and Bonnie. If you’ve read the previous books, you will still find Eve’s long obsession with finding Bonnie’s body, so she can “bring her home” and how this obsession affects her life with Joe. Catherine Ling will have a strong impact on Eve and Joe’s relationship and the hunt for Bonnie’s killer. This is a must read for fans of the Eve Duncan series. You will not want to miss it.
    • 4/5
      Eleventh book featuring expert forensic facial sculpturer, Eve Duncan, who is practically forced to do a computer age progression on the son of desperate CIA agent, Catherine Ling. Luke had been kidnapped by Rakovac in Russia as a means to hurt her when her son was only two and still calls her periodically to get as much pain out of her as possible. Rakovac has fed the CIA just enough intel over the years to keep them off his back. But something big is going on. The CIA needs to know what Rakovac is planning and needs him alive. Catherine has had enough with being held back for the greater good and just wants her son back.As Catherine predicted, Eve’s passion in her work hooks her and her lover, Joe Quinn, into becoming involved in the search and rescue of the now eleven years-old boy. Add to the mix Kelly, a fourteen year-old genius who can see patterns and is now devoted to Catherine after being rescued from a rebel camp in South America.This is my first book by this author of thrillers and it does well as a stand-alone book with plenty of action and political intrigue. The relationship between Eve and Joe felt a little flat for me. Some situations and conversations would have had a deeper meaning if I’d been along for the ride with prior books. But the story moves along at a good clip. I very much enjoyed the explanation Eve gives about facial structure at different ages when doing the age progression and facial reconstruction.
    • 4/5
      Chasing The Night is the 11th in the Eve Duncan forensic sculptor series, fans will be pleased with this action packed thriller and newcomers to the series will find this one will be the enticer to read the whole series.Eve Duncan became a forensic sculptor because of the kidnapping and certain death of her daughter Bonnie, she wants to bring closure to parents of missing children by bringing them home by her reconstruction process and maybe in doing so will bring some comfort and closure where she’s had none. Together with her long time mate and lover Joe Quinn, and CIA operative Venable they embark on a very different mission. Nine years ago former CIA operative Catherine Ling was enjoying domestic bliss when her world fell apart, as she listens on the phone her husband is brutally murdered and the sadistic monster responsible for it also kidnapped her 2yr old son Luke. Now eleven she needs the expertise of Eve to age her son in a last ditch attempt to rescue him. Will he still be alive and if he is will he be worth saving and through it all will Eve suffer the loss of Bonnie all over again by helping to bringing Luke home.Ms. Johansen is her usual brilliant self in this edge of your seat, nail biting, chill a minute thriller. Her plot is as usual over the top, dealing with foreign politics, covert operations and operatives and death defying last minute rescues. Her dialogue is the matter of fact and in your face speak one would expect from hardened black ops, cops and evil villains, and her descriptive narrative will give her readers a bird’s eye view of the places she takes us to in the novel. Her characters will blow you away from the start and they all play their roles effortlessly and excellently. Her audiences will never tire of Eve and Joe and their continuing love story and the adversities they constantly encounter because Ms. Johansen keeps them fresh even after 11 novels in the series and this one is no exception. Her other protagonist Catherine is a character that will hold your interest all through the novel and the readers will feel all the emotions she goes through as she tries almost fruitlessly to rescue her son. But it’s always also a story of courage, of tenacity and of spirit that her characters provide for her readers.Chasing The Night is one of those can’t put it down, pulse racing, page turners that will keep you under it’s spell until you read the words “the end”. If this is your first exposure to Ms. Johansen, believe me it won’t be your last. A must read for all you lovers of exceptional intrigue.
    • 3/5
      I have an earlier Iris Johansen Eve Duncan book on my to-be-read shelf, but I received this one for review so I decided to read this first. Although part of a series, it is certainly a stand-alone book. Eve and Joe are both interesting characters, but as a couple the spark seems to be missing. There was nothing that would make me look forward to another book about them or run to a previous book to find out how they reached this point in their relationship. The other characters in the book are all over the top in whatever they do. There is some sarcastic attitude, which I can appreciate, but they are too much like comic book characters. All in all I can say that it is not a bad action/adventure/thriller but I just couldn’t enjoy reading about the sadistic psychological torture, rape, and other physical abuse especially when a child is involved.
    • 4/5
      If you are a fan of Iris Johansen, or a fan of the Eve Duncan Series, you will LOVE this book. I, however, am still on the fence with both. This book started out great. Lots of action and suspense. I also thought Iris Johansen did a good job of introducing the characters in case this was your first time reading the Eve Duncan Series. The ending was also great. It kept me on the edge of my seat and had me turning the pages way after I was supposed to go to bed. The problem for me was, the middle. It really drug. I found I had a little bit of an issue with Iris Johansen's style of writing. It wasn't noticable when the book was really moving, but it really stuck out to me in the middle. Does she really need to put the word "your" in front of every proper noun?! I found it really irritating. I've never met a single person who actually talks like that. I also became so sick of hearing about "patterns" that I actually considered skipping sections of the book. At times I struggled with the brutality towards women and children that this book conveyed. I guess I was just unprepared because it didn't really go into graphic detail. Overall, I liked the book. I really believe that if you are already a fan of Iris Johansen, you will love it.
    • 4/5
      Iris Johansen hits her stride again after a few missteps in the two previous entries in the Eve Duncan series. This time, we find that Eve is back and sculpting again and is once again on her mission of looking for lost children-- series traits that have been notably lacking in the last book in particular, when Eve was a peripheral character. This time, Eve has been enlisted by CIA agent Catherine Ling to do an age progression on her kidnapped son, Luke, who is being held hostage by a Russian criminal, Rakovac, who has a vendetta against Ling. Ling wishes to track her son down after 9 years and bring him back home, and she wants Rakovac dead at all costs. This search leads them to Russia, where elements of a terrorist plot come into play, and the CIA becomes involved in the plot as well, making it very timely as far as current events go.It may strain credibility a little bit to believe that the CIA has allowed the life of one little boy to play such a large part in their ongoing operations, but this is the suspense genre and not a work of great literary fiction, so I'll give Johansen a pass there. Much of the action takes place in Russia, where Eve, Joe, Catherine, CIA agent Veneable, and various Russian fringe elements collide to the tune of page-turning action. There's no letup here in the suspense. Is the child alive, or is he dead? What move will the CIA make next? What is the role of terrorism in all of this? What move will our unpredictable Russian criminal make next? Who can be trusted? All of these questions are constantly at play. There's also some chemistry between Catherine and Joe, adding an additional element of tension to the novel. Catherine herself is an enigma, driven by her overriding passion to find her son, yet always playing her cards close to her sleeve. The 14-year-old genius character Kelly alone grates somewhat; she's a rather passionless character, and a bit unbelievable and tiresome.The novel keeps the action going right up until the end, and the ending itself is quite tantalizing, promising that Johansen will be right back on her story arc of Bonnie's disappearance in the next novel in the Duncan story, with a fresh new lead. It's a definite cliff-hanger that will leave readers waiting in eager anticipation of the next novel to come.I received an advance copy of the book from GoodReads.
    • 4/5
      This was my first time reading an Iris Johansen book even though I've heard about her for awhile and kept meaning to pick up one of her books. It certainly did not disappoint.The CharactersI fell in love with Eve and Joe right away. Both characters were strong without being overbearing, co-dependent or pig headed. I want to learn more about Bonnie especially when I found out there are several books about Eve Duncan so I assume there is a back story there. Catherine also began to grow on me although I was initially turned off by just how ruthless she could get in her mission to save her son. I started to empathize with her because I couldn't even begin to imagine how it would feel to lose a child at 2 years old and always wonder what is happening to him. Even the villains in the story were so well fleshed out that you loved to hate them and could not wait until they got what they had coming to them.The only character I had issues with was Kelly. I understand she was supposed to be a teen age whiz kid but I found her to be extremely irritating and way too pushy. I know it worked with the plot line but that does not mean I have to like her.The Story LineThis story grabbed me from the start and did not let me go. It was a roller coaster of a read as the tension starts building and although you know when you get to the top there is going to be the ultimate show down as Catherine confronts her son's kidnapper you still feel that rush when you get there. Yes, a lot of the details about how things come about are unbelievable but just enjoy the story and go with the flow.The RomanceIt seems that every book has to have some sort of romantic encounter thrown into the mix and in this one Eve and Joe have a long standing relationship that works well without over powering the main plot line. There was some tension when you wonder what affect Catherine, a beautiful, strong and intelligent woman, may have on their relationship but that was woven in nicely.This book definitely leaves me wanting to read more of Iris Johansen's books.
    • 3/5
      Normally, I enjoy Iris Johansen's books; I think I've read most of them, but this one left me cold. The dialogue seemed stilted and the characters quite unbelievable. Although I finished the book, it was a struggle, and I could never quite immerse myself in the story.
    • 4/5
      I received the Advanced Reading Copy from Librarything's Early Reviewer giveaway. When I first saw they were giving away arc's of Iris Johansen I was extremely excited. I received the book and I continued to be excited, the cover is engaging, the colors of the sunset or both settling and uneasy at the same time. Kinda weird. I settled in to read another story about Eve Duncan.This story wasn't so much about Eve, as it is about Catherine Ling. Years earlier Catherine helped to discredit a very powerful and ruthless man, in retaliation this man kidnapped her son and has been holding him hostage. Catherine is done waiting for this man to return her son, she is done waiting for government agencies to help her, she turns to Eve to enlist Eve's help with a computer aging program to see what her son would look like today. This is not Eve's specialty and it takes some convincing by Catherine to enlist Eve's aid.Through many twists and turns, do Eve and Catherine go. Finally ending in the confrontation with the wicked powerful and psychotic man. The story was relatively fast paced, which I like in these type of books. Which is strange because I kept getting the feeling that there should be a little more dialogue here and a little more description there. Other than the tiny little feeling, I enjoyed the plot and it kept me engaged which is always a good thing with a book. If you have read Iris Johansen before and liked the read, you'll like this one.
    • 5/5
      I received an advance readers' edition of this novel via the Early Reviewer's group here at Library Thing.Chasing the Night was my first Iris Johansen novel. This one blew me away from the beginning. I love thrillers and this one grabbed me and held on the whole way through. The writing was perfect and seemed to flow straight from the page to my brain. I was so into the story that it did not seem like I was reading a book.The story delivered lots of violence and action mixed with strong tugs on the emotional heart strings. Cruelty to children always adds an extra punch with me. The villain is cruel and easy to hate, while the hero characters are instantly likeable.This was a fast read for me, very hard to put down. I picture this work as the result of sitting a Kathy Reichs novel too close to a Brad Thor novel. Very interesting outcome.
    • 5/5
      Eve Duncan, forensic sculptor, enters her studio to find a beautiful and possible lethal woman awaiting her. Eve responds not with fear but anger and refuses to hear the woman’s request. She eventually gives in and takes on the woman’s cause as her own – a search for a missing child taken as a hostage to punish his mother, a CIA agent. This is Iris Johansen at her best. The character will captivate you and the story, combining international terrorism, gifted children and grieving mothers, will keep you reading late at night.
    • 4/5
      Put all aside when you curl up with this action packed suspense novel by Iris Johansen.Not a previous follower of Johansen, Chasing The Night may have altered that. Strong, gritty female leads make up most of this suspense which revolves around the revengeful kidnapping of a CIA operatives' 2 year old son. Nine years later, Catherine Ling's opportunity is here. She has worked for the CIA since she was 17, she's brutally cold, made clear from her background in Hong Kong. Catherine's nightmare of playing the "game" in order to keep her son safe is now ending quickly so she turns to Eve Duncan, forensic sculptor. Not that Eve is the best, but Catherine is betting on Eve's driving passion as a mother, a mother who's abducted daughter's case has never been solved. With an age progression in hand and time running out this suspense twist and turns with madmen, international plots, human emotions and just gut intitution. A very good stand alone in the Eve Duncan series. Each page I turned in anticipation of just one more page!