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I loved the Archie/Gretchen books and was looking forward to this one, but it was really pretty bad. Kick tells the reader REPEATEDLY how she is so deadly in terms of fighting and knowing about guns. Throughout the book she'll note how another character's gun is wrong for her or some other type of gun would be better. She also knows how to fight, pick locks, make bombs, etc. and is quite the tough little cookie. Unfortunately, that toughness is never shown - she fights Bishop and loses, ends up unconscious (and would be dead if Bishop hadn't saved her). Scales a house when she could have gone through the front door. I also don't understand why Bishop needs her and her "expertise" -- a lot of it just seems like common sense on how one would hide a kidnapped child. She even gets outwitted by her mother and she never explains who someone goes from child molestee until age 14 to computer genius in fewer than 10 years. I didn't care about the mysterious Mr. Bishop who seemed like the ultimate fictitious character -- handsome man with lots of money and toys and no job with a mysterious past and not findable on the Internet. Perhaps if Kick were a little smarter she would know to avoid people like that (and he did tell her he used to sell weapons -- guns among them). No thanks - I liked both Archie and Gretchen and found them to be real characters -- neither of these people did I like or find believable. PLEASE get this from a library and see if you like it before you buy it!