The good son
Subtitle: a novel
By: Michael Gruber
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Corvus
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 479
ISBN-13: 9781848875883; 9781848875876
Subjects: Political kidnapping; Pakistani Americans; Fiction
Description: Somewhere in Pakistan, Sonia Laghari and eight fellow members of a symposium on peace are being held captive by armed terrorists. Sonia, a deeply religious woman as well as a Jungian psychologist, has become the de facto leader of the kidnapped group, while her son Theo, an ex-Delta soldier, uses his military connections to find and free the victims.
Notes: Originally published: New York, N.Y. : Henry Holt and Co., 2010.