The Abduction by Jonathan Holt5/31/2023 ![]() Holt deftly avoids prurience or gratuity while conveying the horror of walling, waterboarding, and similar practices, and Mia is refreshingly resourceful throughout her ordeal. They enlist Daniele Barbo, Carnivia’s reclusive mastermind, to help find Mia. Holly Boland suspect the abductors have powerful, hidden supporters with another agenda. While the kidnappers claim the “non-torture” will cease when Americans halt construction on a nearby military base, Carabiniere Capt. ![]() Videos soon appear on -a cyber-Venice in which carnival masks hide identities and ethical boundaries collapse-showing Mia undergoing CIA-sanctioned “interrogation” techniques. The disappearance in Venice of 16-year-old Mia Elston, an American officer’s daughter, kick-starts Holt’s enthralling second Carnivia thriller (after 2013’s The Abomination). ![]()
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