![]() ![]() “That’s how The Chain works and goes on for ever.” McKinty explores what parents will do when a child is in danger, forcing the reader to ask at every turn just how far they’d go themselves. When Rachel’s teenage daughter Kylie is kidnapped, the only way to get her back is to kidnap another child, with her victim’s parents then forced to abduct their own hostage. ![]() The prose is glorious, Heller’s evocation of the natural surroundings stunning, but, most important, the tension is razor-sharp.Īdrian McKinty’s The Chain (Orion) is an ingenious realisation of a horrible premise. The novel follows two students who take the summer off to canoe the remote waterway, only to find themselves trying to outrun a forest fire – “they didn’t say a word but the silence of it and the way it seemed to breathe scared them to the bone” – as a man they think is a killer follows in their tracks. Continuing the theme of thrillers that pit protagonists against the implacable dangers of the natural world, but shifting the action to the Maskwa River in northern Canada, is Peter Heller’s The River (W&N). ![]()
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