Twin Powers starts with the kidnapping of
ten year old Stephanie while on vacation in Cuba with her mother and twin
sister by a mysterious stranger who appears to be an Arab tourist. Her mother, Sonia, is given a message from a
street vendor who happened to be there.
“He said to tell you that this is payback,”
the old man said, his voice cracking.
“That you would never see your daughter again.”
This leaves Sonia and the authorities
wondering who could possibly have a grudge against her that they would kidnap
her daughter to punish her for.
From there the reader is pulled along as Stephanie’s
estranged parents, along with a professional assassin called in by the Cuban
government, try to learn the identity of the kidnappers and track Stephanie
down.
As the drama unfolds,
suspicions shift, and they discover that a human trafficking ring has kidnapped
the girl. The deeper they go into the
world of Middle East human traffickers, the more it begins to look like there
is something more than sex slavery behind the kidnapping.
In Twin Powers, David Pereda has created a
world of international intrigue that runs deeper than the story initially
suggests, centering on the kidnapping of a child.
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