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| Original Title: | Vanishing Act (Jane Whitefield, Book 1) |
| ISBN: | 0804113874 (ISBN13: 9780804113878) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Jane Whitefield #1 |
| Characters: | Jane Whitefield |
| Setting: | Tonawanda, New York(United States) Western New York(United States) |
Thomas Perry
Paperback | Pages: 368 pages Rating: 4 | 4658 Users | 447 Reviews
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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....
Present Containing Books Vanishing Act (Jane Whitefield #1)
| Title | : | Vanishing Act (Jane Whitefield #1) |
| Author | : | Thomas Perry |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 368 pages |
| Published | : | March 2nd 1996 by Fawcett Books (first published January 1st 1995) |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Fiction. Thriller. Mystery Thriller. Suspense. Crime. Audiobook |
Rating Containing Books Vanishing Act (Jane Whitefield #1)
Ratings: 4 From 4658 Users | 447 ReviewsAssessment Containing Books Vanishing Act (Jane Whitefield #1)
I read this because of a recommendation. I won't go into a lot of detail about the story line (the synopsis takes care of that - it is accurate). Jane is an interesting main character with an even more interesting choice of profession. The plot was interesting and suspenseful enough for me. The detours into Native American mythology were at times too much for me (less would have been more). But I enjoyed the first of this series and will certainly read more.This is my first Thomas Perry novel. It will not be my last.I am not usually enamored of female protagonists in crime thriller fiction. I'm in love with Jane Whitfield, though. Half Seneca, she has chosen to be a tribal member and acts accordingly. She has the ability to imagine how her ancestors, who inhabited the upstate New York area she lives in, were able to live and prosper before the coming of the Europeans.She makes a living by helping people vanish. A career, she stumbled into when she
This is the first Thomas Perry book I've read, and I really liked it. It took me a little bit to get into it because I had just finished a western book and I kept thinking I was reading that book. I think it's because the MC, Jane Whitefield, is Native American, and she tells a lot of the history of tribes and it just sounded too familiar. I can't say I was "confused" but I definitely wish I'd read it farther apart from when I read my western. I like that our heroine is one of those kick-ass
Somehow I missed reading the first two Jane Whitefield novels (Vanishing Act, Dance For The Dead). Vanishing Act sets the tone that is followed in the other Jane novels. Jane Whitefield is one of the most compelling characters in fiction. All of the Jane novels are highly recommended.
I've been engrossed in a number of series involving strong Native-American women and their mysticism, from the Hillerman's, Margaret Coel or even Craig Johnson, but this is the first that dealt with one from an East Coast, woodland tribe...Jane Whitefield, of the Seneca, is a "Rock Your World" heroine who runs kind of a "private" Witness Protection Program for people who want to disappear...In the first of the series, someone has "hacked' into her pipeline and some of her contacts have been
A little too "woo woo" for my taste but I'm willing to read book 2 in the series.
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