Gone By Lisa Gardner: Summary

My book was Gone by Lisa Gardner. It is a story about an ex-FBI profiler Pierce Quincy and his estranged wife, Rainie Conners. The story takes place in Oregon. The story begins with the profiler finding an empty car on the highway. After doing some investigating, he figured out that it was Rainies car. Thus begins the searching for Rainie. Unknown to Pierce, Rainie had been kidnapped. She is beaten, tortured, and thrown into a dark and cold basement. She stays there and tries to escape many times. Eventually, the kidnapper throws down another victim. Rainie was horrified to realize that it was a small boy. Now she can’t escape herself, she has to help the boy escape. With every failed escape, she is beaten even worse. The kidnapper finally had enough and decided to kill them. He fills the basement with water until he thought that they were dead. Fortunately, Rainie and the little boy escaped. The boy ran past the attacker while Rainie threw the attacker into the basements. They

made their escape just as Pierce burst through the door. The attacker tries to shoot Rainie but Pierce shoots and kills him.
Throughout the story, Pierce had to do extremely difficult investigating.

Each clue that they would find would only help them very little. He had to carefully put all the pieces of the clues together so that he could figure out where Rainie was. The one clue that told where she is was the ransom note the kidnapper sent to the police. That was his undoing.
In the book, I chose the quote by Rainie, “I must save this boy, even if it means I don’t save myself.” I chose this because of the sacrifice Rainie was going to commit so that someone else could escape. She put the boy before herself, and she would do anything so that he would escape. That takes a lot of courage and boldness.
Most of the story takes place in a dark, musty basement. The basement was full of rats, water, and dirt. Throughout the story, the cold would affect Rainie and the boy. Rainie got sick towards the end and started coughing and shivering. Of course the kidnapper didn’t care. All the boy and Rainie could do was

wait.
In the end, the kidnapper was killed and Rainie and the boy escaped. The boy was taken back to his family and Rainie was taken care of. She was given medicine and was taken to a hospital. I recommend this book to people who like a mystery. It is full of suspense and mystery.