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Missing
A gripping island thriller!
Investigative reporter Emerson Moore thought he had finally taken down Detroit mobster Jimmy Diamonds for good. He was wrong.
During a violent prison van hijacking near the Detroit River, Moore is critically injured in a savage gun battle by a getaway boat. When the blood-soaked vessel is later discovered abandoned on Lake Erie, Moore has vanished.
But Moore isn’t the only thing missing. His memory is gone.
Seizing the opportunity, Diamonds convinces the disoriented Moore that he is actually Manny Elias, a deadly contract killer for organized crime. Hidden deep in the backwaters of Cedar Key, Florida, Moore is “retrained” in the art of murder. Soon, the man once dedicated to exposing criminals becomes the weapon they now control.
From the islands of Lake Erie to the streets of Detroit, Columbus, Cleveland, and Northeast Ohio, Moore/Elias is sent on a brutal campaign of revenge against Diamonds’ enemies. With each deadly assignment, fragments of Moore’s true identity begin clawing their way to the surface.
Complicating everything is a beautiful woman who awakens emotions he can’t explain and a growing realization that something about his life feels terribly wrong. As rival hitmen close in and the body count rises, Moore faces an impossible choice when two of his closest friends become his next targets.
Fast-paced, suspenseful, and packed with explosive action, Missing is a riveting psychological thriller filled with mob intrigue, memory loss, betrayal, and shocking twists that race toward a deadly showdown.
Investigative reporter Emerson Moore thought he had finally taken down Detroit mobster Jimmy Diamonds for good. He was wrong.
During a violent prison van hijacking near the Detroit River, Moore is critically injured in a savage gun battle by a getaway boat. When the blood-soaked vessel is later discovered abandoned on Lake Erie, Moore has vanished.
But Moore isn’t the only thing missing. His memory is gone.
Seizing the opportunity, Diamonds convinces the disoriented Moore that he is actually Manny Elias, a deadly contract killer for organized crime. Hidden deep in the backwaters of Cedar Key, Florida, Moore is “retrained” in the art of murder. Soon, the man once dedicated to exposing criminals becomes the weapon they now control.
From the islands of Lake Erie to the streets of Detroit, Columbus, Cleveland, and Northeast Ohio, Moore/Elias is sent on a brutal campaign of revenge against Diamonds’ enemies. With each deadly assignment, fragments of Moore’s true identity begin clawing their way to the surface.
Complicating everything is a beautiful woman who awakens emotions he can’t explain and a growing realization that something about his life feels terribly wrong. As rival hitmen close in and the body count rises, Moore faces an impossible choice when two of his closest friends become his next targets.
Fast-paced, suspenseful, and packed with explosive action, Missing is a riveting psychological thriller filled with mob intrigue, memory loss, betrayal, and shocking twists that race toward a deadly showdown.
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First published April 1, 2015
About the author
Bob Adamov
38 books24 followersBob Adamov is an Ohio-based mystery adventure writer whose stories are based in the Lake Erie South Bass Island resort town of Put-in-Bay, the “Key West of the Midwest.” His novels follow the adventures of Washington Post investigative reporter, Emerson Moore, and are written in the style of Adamov’s favorite author, Clive Cussler.
Adamov was the featured author at the 2006 Ernest Hemingway Days’ Literary Festival in Key West and named 2010’s Writer of the Year by the University of Akron’s Wayne College.
His first novel, Rainbow’s End, was a finalist as the top fiction novel for the 2003 Great Lakes Book Award competition that was won by the Pulitzer Prize-winner, Middlesex.
All of his novels were rated “5 Stars” by the Midwest Book Review and named as top novels in northeast Ohio by the Akron Beacon Journal. His novels have won awards at the Hollywood Book Festival, London Book Festival, New York Book Festival, Florida Book Festival and the Indie Awards.
He was a guest author at the 2008, 2010, 2015 & 2017 Clive Cussler Collectors Society Convention where he met his hero, Clive Cussler, and toured his car collection. Mr. Cussler endorsed Adamov’s fifth book - “The Other Side of Hell is a great read!”
“Bob Adamov is a superb craftsman of hanging-on-the-edge-of-your-seat mystery adventures…” - Midwest Book Review
Adamov’s favorite authors include Brad Thor, Mark Twain, Ian Fleming, Jack Higgins, and Alistair MacLean. He strives to emulate his favorite author, Clive Cussler, and created a character similar to Cussler’s Dirk Pitt.
His latest novel, Golden Torpedo, was released in July 2017. It continues the popular Emerson Moore series and Adamov’s string of island best sellers which include Rainbow’s End, Pierce the Veil, When Rainbows Walk, Promised Land, The Other Side of Hell, Tan Lines, Sandustee, Zenobia and Missing.
A Kent State University graduate, Adamov resides in Wooster, Ohio. He often can be seen in Put-in-Bay, Key West and the Cayman Islands with his scuba diving, boating and treasure hunting friends. He had worked for an Arlington, Virginia-based defense contractor in the intelligence sector.
Adamov is drafting the next novel in the series – Chincoteague Calm involving mysterious NASA rocket explosions and covert Russian and Chinese saboteurs on Chincoteague Island in Virginia. He is also working on Flight, which deals with a mystery surrounding former Bellevue resident and railroad tycoon Henry Flager and a train to Key West.
Adamov was the featured author at the 2006 Ernest Hemingway Days’ Literary Festival in Key West and named 2010’s Writer of the Year by the University of Akron’s Wayne College.
His first novel, Rainbow’s End, was a finalist as the top fiction novel for the 2003 Great Lakes Book Award competition that was won by the Pulitzer Prize-winner, Middlesex.
All of his novels were rated “5 Stars” by the Midwest Book Review and named as top novels in northeast Ohio by the Akron Beacon Journal. His novels have won awards at the Hollywood Book Festival, London Book Festival, New York Book Festival, Florida Book Festival and the Indie Awards.
He was a guest author at the 2008, 2010, 2015 & 2017 Clive Cussler Collectors Society Convention where he met his hero, Clive Cussler, and toured his car collection. Mr. Cussler endorsed Adamov’s fifth book - “The Other Side of Hell is a great read!”
“Bob Adamov is a superb craftsman of hanging-on-the-edge-of-your-seat mystery adventures…” - Midwest Book Review
Adamov’s favorite authors include Brad Thor, Mark Twain, Ian Fleming, Jack Higgins, and Alistair MacLean. He strives to emulate his favorite author, Clive Cussler, and created a character similar to Cussler’s Dirk Pitt.
His latest novel, Golden Torpedo, was released in July 2017. It continues the popular Emerson Moore series and Adamov’s string of island best sellers which include Rainbow’s End, Pierce the Veil, When Rainbows Walk, Promised Land, The Other Side of Hell, Tan Lines, Sandustee, Zenobia and Missing.
A Kent State University graduate, Adamov resides in Wooster, Ohio. He often can be seen in Put-in-Bay, Key West and the Cayman Islands with his scuba diving, boating and treasure hunting friends. He had worked for an Arlington, Virginia-based defense contractor in the intelligence sector.
Adamov is drafting the next novel in the series – Chincoteague Calm involving mysterious NASA rocket explosions and covert Russian and Chinese saboteurs on Chincoteague Island in Virginia. He is also working on Flight, which deals with a mystery surrounding former Bellevue resident and railroad tycoon Henry Flager and a train to Key West.
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January 23, 2025
OK we get it, Bob likes blondes and 🍒. 80% pew pew run away, 20% “biker babes”
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