Destroyer Angel: An Anna Pigeon Novel, Book 17 [Unabridged] [Audible Audio Edition] Author: | Language: English | ISBN:
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Anna Pigeon, a ranger for the U.S. Park Services, sets off on vacation - an autumn canoe trip into the Iron Range in upstate Minnesota. With Anna is her friend Heath, a paraplegic; Heath's 15-year-old daughter, Elizabeth; Leah, a wealthy designer of outdoor equipment; and her daughter, Katie, who is 13. For Heath and Leah, this is a shakedown cruise to test a new cutting-edge line of camping equipment. The equipment, designed by Leah, will make camping and canoeing more accessible to disabled outdoorsmen. On their second night out, Anna goes off on her own for a solo evening float on the Fox River.
When she comes back, she finds that four thugs, armed with rifles, pistols, and knives, have taken the two women and their teenaged daughters captive. With limited resources and no access to the outside world, Anna has only two days to rescue them before her friends are either killed or flown out of the country, in Destroyer Angel by Nevada Barr.
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- Audible Audio Edition
- Listening Length: 11 hours and 37 minutes
- Program Type: Audiobook
- Version: Unabridged
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Scheduled Audible.com Release Date: April 1, 2014
- Whispersync for Voice: Ready
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00IIUW9EE
My first thought in seeing the title of Nevada Barr's latest novel was that it might have a religious context.
Far from it. The story tells of two women and their daughters who were starting a canoeing and camping trip in upper Minnesota. Lucky for them, park ranger, Anna Pigeon was also on the trip.
Fortunately, Anna wasn't in camp when four gangsters kidnapped the women. The kidnappers plan is to get the women to a landing site not far away. This way they can be picked up and proceed with getting a ransom payment. However, one of the women is a paraplegic and the leader of the gang is ready to kill her rather than go through the trouble to get her to the landing site when one of the women's daughters tells them that the woman's family has lots of money and it would be worth their while to kidnap her too.
Of the four women, one adult is a paraplegic and the other adult is the brains behind a company who has designed a wheelchair that can be used in a wilderness setting. They are accompanied by their daughters. The hoodlums had been told that there would be another woman in their group but when asked, the other women tell them that the other member of the planned group changed her mind.
Anna is late getting to the camp and sees what has transpired. She observes the plight of the women and although she is unarmed, she is like a Rambo character in that she goes up against four hoods without a weapon.
The leader of the group uses his cell phone to tell the person who will pay them that the women are captured and to send the plane.
Anna's survival skills are first manifested as she braves the cold and awaits her opportunity to get the best of the criminals.
INCLUDES SOME SPOILERS: I have read every book in the Anna Pigeon series, beginning with the first book entitled "Track of the Cat," which I read several years ago. I would venture to say that the first half of the series is far superior to the more recent books, at least in my opinion. Anna started out as a seasonal employee, a GS 03, and has worked her way up to a permanent Law Enforcement Ranger. The least characteristic, and most far-fetched, of the more recent offerings was when Anna performed an emergency C-section with a jack knife and then clung to the baby, even though it had been established that since the death of her first husband she did not want children. In "Destroyer Angel" Anna revisits two characters from a previous book -- Heath (who contrary to her name is a woman) and Heath's adopted daughter, Elizabeth. Heath is a paraplegic as the result of an accident, and Elizabeth is a survivor of a fanatical cult that Anna had to deal with a few years before. The three are on a camping trip accompanied by Leah,an inventor who may suffer from a high level form of autism (suggested throughout the narrative), her 13 year old daughter Katie, and an elderly dog, Wiley. While Anna is out on a solo day trip in a canoe, the two women and their daughters are taken captive by four thugs specifically sent to kidnap Leah and Katie.
The book is told in alternating chapters from the points of view of Heath, of Charles (AKA "dude") the head of the kidnappers and a sociopath who has an intense hatred for the handicapped, and Anna. Anna and the injured dog Wiley track the group hoping to kill or capture the thugs and save the women and girls.
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