Blackbird Singing

by Jay Amberg

Famous athlete Sky Walker's world crashes down around him when his nine-year-old daughter Tonya disappears, and a stunned public finds out through an obsessed media that the genius who kidnapped her threatens the whole world

304 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published August 15, 1998

About the author

Jay Amberg is the author of twelve books. He received a BA from Georgetown University and a PhD from Northwestern University. He has taught high school and college students since 1972.

His latest book, The Healer’s Daughters, is now available from Amika Press. Amberg has also published Bone Box, Cycle, America’s Fool, Whale Song, and compiled 52 Poems for Men.

Prior to Amika Press, Amberg published thriller novels Doubloon (Forge), Blackbird Singing (Forge) and Deep Gold (Warner Books).

Among his books on teaching are School Smarts and The Study Skills Handbook, published by Good Year. Amberg wrote The Creative Writing Handbook (Good Year) with Mark Henry Larson and Verbal Review and Workbook for the SAT (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich) with Robert S Boone.

Reviews

[Ralph McEwen · Rating 2 out of 5]

This being the first review of this book should be more in-depth and informative, but your stuck with me doing it. The book is a quick paced action filled read. Don’t expect any insights from this novel just entertainment. The bad guy starts out looking like he’s going to fall on his face in the next few pages but he develops into a rather capable and sneaky SOB. The good guys are mediocre and not very inspiring. The rest of the cast is just dressing, even the victims don’t raise much sympathy.

[paulette sarelli]

Great police thriller

This story kept you on the edge of your seat until the end. Lots of drama and intrigue! It sounds like it could be true that someone could be as smart as the main character. Kind of scary. Great read!

[Ron · Rating 3 out of 5]

Super smart nerd takes on his high school enemies in revenge for being a high school nerd. Almost average Joe cop who used to be a basketball player tries to hunt the nerd down before he hurts anyone else. Plot twists but the only surprise is that the "villain" gets away. Oh, and the the other bad guys get what's coming to them as well.