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The Quiet Return

The Quiet Return

Cross, Evan J.

Paperback

Series: The Mike Dorset Thrillers, Book 10

Mystery & Thriller

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ISBN13: 9798191512174
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 212
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.45 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Brian Holt is back.

That alone should be enough to make Mike Dorset walk away.

Instead Holt shows up scared, cornered, and asking for help Mike does not want to give. His four-year-old daughter Nora has been taken, and the people holding her belong to a coercion network tied to the same criminal lane Holt once treated as work. Mike's first instinct is that Holt is still doing what Holt always does: shaping the room, hiding the worst part, and making someone else carry the cost.

Then Nora's danger becomes real.

Lena Ochoa joins the search not because she trusts Holt, but because she knows Mike will not leave a child inside a dark system once he is sure the threat is true. What follows is not a clean rescue. It is a descent into holding sites, compromised insiders, violent handlers, and the kind of criminal space that survives because most people tell themselves not to look too closely.

To get Nora back, Mike has to work beside a man he despises, keep the case from turning into revenge, and move fast enough to break the network before it closes over the children inside it. But getting a child out is not the same thing as making anything right again.

The Quiet Return is a dark, intimate Mike Dorset thriller about poisoned alliances, children used as leverage, and the cost of doing the right thing after the quiet has already started to feel borrowed.

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