Shannon Kirk

Method 15/33 Shannon Kirk

Brief Description: She isn't your typical teenaged kidnapped victim: she's a 16-year-old pregnant teenager, and from the moment she's kidnapped, she feels a calm desire to not only save her unborn son but to also exact merciless revenge. Leaving nothing to chance, and secure in her timing and practice, she considers what her assets are and waits for the perfect moment to strike. Publisher Marketing: Imagine a helpless, pregnant 16-year-old who's just been yanked from the serenity of her home and shoved into a dirty van. Kidnapped Alone Terrified. Now forget her Picture instead a pregnant, 16-year-old, manipulative prodigy. She is shoved into a dirty van and, from the first moment of her kidnapping, feels a calm desire for two things: to save her unborn son and to exact merciless revenge. She is methodical calculating scientific in her plotting. A clinical sociopath? Leaving nothing to chance, secure in her timing and practice, she waits for the perfect moment to strike. "Method 15/33" is what happens when the victim is just as cold as the captors. The agents trying to find a kidnapped girl have their own frustrations and desires wrapped into this chilling drama. In the twists of intersecting stories, one is left to ponder. Who is the victim? Who is the aggressor? " Review Citations:

Publishers Weekly 03/09/2015 (EAN 9781608091454, Hardcover) - *Starred Review

Booklist 05/01/2015 pg. 41 (EAN 9781608091454, Hardcover)

Booklist 05/01/2015 pg. 41 (EAN 9781608091461, Open Ebook)

Contributor Bio:  Kirk, Shannon Shannon Kirk is a practicing attorney and a law professor. She attended West Virginia Wesleyan and St. John's Universities, is a graduate of Suffolk Law School, and was a trial lawyer in Chicago prior to moving to Massachusetts. She has been honored three times by the Faulkner Society in the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband, a physicist, and their son. "Method 15/33" is her first novel.