Missing Persons

A Novel of Suspense

By: Jack Olsen

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Missing Persons is Jack Olsen’s novel of suspense and horror, combining the shock and tension of A Stranger Is Watching with the gritty realism of The Blue Knight – a story of terror and loss and love that unlocks the nightmares lurking behind the façades of ordinary lives. Could it happen to you? Severn Gamble’s wife walks into the Justice Building of a major Northwestern city to pick up some typing-and never comes out. (“Margot?”) No one has seen her. (“Margot!”) She has disappeared. (“Margot!”) And the nightmare begins. Gamble starts to hunt for her, joined by two police officers, Johnny Boon, case-hardened, cynical, and with a wife who's just walked out on him; and Tally Wickham, young, pretty, smartass, and as compatible with Boon as oil and water. Together and separately, the three of them undertake a search for Margot Gamble, a search that soon becomes obsessional, as others begin disappearing too, beginning with a child… And ending no one knows where. “God, please God, let her be alive. And God… let her not be in pain...” Never faltering, thick with vivid characterization and building to one of the most terrifying climaxes in years, Missing Persons is a masterpiece of suspense, a novel to read and remember and dream about…on dark nights.