Caught in a mysterious storm, three strangers survive to find everybody else has vanished. When unscrupulous lawyer Connor Hayden, aging model Helen Krause, and enterprising mechanic Mitch Kent meet, they're desperate. And they're being watched---by "observers" who force them to relive their pasts. Does a mute homeless boy hold the key to their future?
Pages:
384 Format:
Paperback EAN/ISBN:
1414318936 Publisher:
Tyndale House Publishers
Chilling| Posted October 07, 2010
Christy-Award winning novel Vanish is a one-of-a-kind novel, one whose scope is not often repeated by another in one decade. The book is a captivating and chilling debut by Pawlik.
Conner Hayden, an attorney who is practically married to his job and is divorced, begins seeing strange white, blank faces in his work office, downtown Chicago. Two others, aging model Helen Krause and mechanic Mitch Kent, also begin noticing strange things. Then, one morning they wake to find that everyone has simply...vanished. Desperate for answers, the three set out, eventually finding each other and uniting in their common quest. What they eventually find is one of the most disturbing truths of all - a dangerous place where strange creatures force them to relive their painful, equally scarred pasts. Vanish has an outstanding yet disturbing finale, one that leaves the reader breathless with anticipation for the 2009 sequel, Valley of the Shadow. This very well-written and well-formulated novel kept me up hours into the night, waiting for that big moment of truth to come. And it did...with an even better conclusion than I had hypothesized. Tom Pawlik is definitively traveling into my Top 5 favorite authors - one who will shake the world with his imagination and still deliver wonderful themes.
Wow!| Posted July 21, 2009
I just finished this book yesterday, and now that I heard that there's a sequel, I definately want to ran out and buy it. This book is totally worth your money, especially if you dig books by authors such as Ted Dekker and Frank Perretti, or the Babylon Rising series by Tim LaHaye. It's adrenaline-laced and action packed, and believe me, it'll keep you guessing until the end. I was totally surprised as to how the story turned out, but it made a whole lot of sense. Tom Pawlik obviously put a lot of thought behind the plot, and I really like that. And it has a good message behind it as well. I would totally recommend this book to anyone!
