Mine by Robert R. McCammon
Adrift in the 1980s and slowly losing her mind, a heavily armed former '60s radical kidnaps a baby with the hope, deluded as it may be, of returning her life to simpler times. The child's mother, though, isn't about to take it lying down and, along with a tracker, begins a cross-country chase to get her child back.
Maybe because there wasn’t any actual horror of the supernatural variety, I didn’t enjoy this book as much as I have practically all of his books. I’m not a fan of suspense stories, so there was that, too. Too often the story moves forward because yet another bad thing has happened, standing in the way for our hero to triumph. Eventually, I can’t help but roll my eyes at the improbability of its all.
I couldn’t stand Mary, the mad 80’s radical, which I guess is the way I was supposed to feel. But I wasn’t all that crazy about Laura, the mother, either. I felt sympathy for what she was going through, but I never connected with the character.
The story is good enough that I was able to finish it, but not one of McCammon’s best in my opinion.
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Mine by Robert McCammon