The Guardian

by Bill Eidson

Book Overview

While at a convenience store with her family to buy ice cream, eleven-year-old Janine Stearns is kidnapped by a masked gunman who notices her father's BMW, and it is up to her uncle and guardian Ross... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 031286115X
• ISBN13: 9780312861155
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Forge
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A true page-turner

I took this book with me on vacation, and was dismayed because I couldn't make it last the week. But I had to keep reading; Eidson kept the prose moving and the surprises coming, and because certain events warned me that this was not some stock happily-ever-after Crime Light, I was driven to see how it turned out. This book is intelligently written, hard to second-guess. The violence, both psychological and physical, is scarily realistic, and the characters are well drawn. Eidson deserves a nice, plump best-seller to help raise this one back from the out-of-print graveyard.Susan O'NeillAuthor: Don't Mean Nothing: Short Stories of Viet Nam

Great Book!!

This book was fabulous! I couldn't put it down!! I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Eidson at the time that I purchased this book, and he's just as interesting as his writing. Keep up the good work!!!

Suspensively gripping novel

This is the first book I have read by Bill Eidson and I enjoyed it immensely. Once started, it was difficult to put down. The action is fast and the characters are interesting and believable. I look forward to reading Bill's other novels.