Even for thriller genre readers, that opening has a big dose of what we see and hear in the news every day: men destroying female lives and so it is doubly frightening.
And, it has the kidnapper's ring of 'Even IF you do Everything that I tell you to do,
I may still kill you both." What fun.
And, it has the kidnapper's ring of 'Even IF you do Everything that I tell you to do,
I may still kill you both." What fun.