Night Watch

August 29, 2016
Early in bestseller Johansen and son’s suspenseful fourth novel featuring Dr. Kendra Michaels (after 2015’s The Naked Eye), Kendra, who was blind until she was 20, delivers a research paper on aging at Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif. Afterward, she’s surprised to discover that Dr. Charles Waldridge, the British surgeon who restored her sight nine years earlier, was in the audience. The two have dinner at a nearby ocean-side restaurant, where Charles says he’s come to L.A. from London on a fund-raising mission. Kendra cleverly deduces that something else is causing Charles stress, but he won’t tell her what. When he later goes missing, Kendra believes foul play is involved and enlists the aid of former FBI agent Adam Lynch in her search for Charles. The danger that Kendra and Adam face increases dramatically as they get closer to the truth, as does the attraction between the two. The plot builds to a stunning conclusion. Agent: Andrea Cirillo, Jane Rotrosen Agency.

May 15, 2016

Born blind but pulled from the dark at age 20 by a radical new medical procedure, Kendra Michaels is an acute investigator sought out by police nationwide. Alas, her latest case involves Dr. Charles Waldridge, the very man who restored her sight. With a one-day laydown on October 25.

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An unorthodox investigator is desperate to save her beloved mentor from possible death.Music therapist Kendra Michaels has every reason to be grateful to Dr. Charles Waldridge. Born blind, she can now see because of an experimental surgery developed by Waldridge and his colleagues in England's Night Watch Project. All the years of her blindness allowed her to develop amazing skills in hearing, smelling, and noticing tiny details others would miss. In the past she's helped the FBI and former agent Adam Lynch, whom she holds at arm's length even though he's deeply in love with her. After Kendra (Close Your Eyes, 2012, etc.) has dinner with Waldridge, who claims to be visiting California to raise funds, he goes missing . Kendra works with the police and FBI to find him but also calls on Lynch's special resources. Another member is soon added to the team: tough ex-Army private investigator Jessie Mercado, whom Waldridge had hired to watch one of his colleagues. A friend of Lynch's who's following up on the Night Watch project in England is killed soon after sending him some puzzling photos of a lab in a supposedly empty factory. At length Kendra realizes that the project Waldridge is working on has something to do with creating working organs and that someone is using all means available to force him to reveal his secrets. Despite dire warnings from Lynch and Jessie, she insists on taking part in a dangerous rescue attempt. Despite the requisite mysterious evildoers and violence, this thriller remains curiously unsatisfying, perhaps because the formidable skills the heroine displays don't include common sense. COPYRIGHT(1) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

August 15, 2016
An unorthodox investigator is desperate to save her beloved mentor from possible death.Music therapist Kendra Michaels has every reason to be grateful to Dr. Charles Waldridge. Born blind, she can now see because of an experimental surgery developed by Waldridge and his colleagues in Englands Night Watch Project. All the years of her blindness allowed her to develop amazing skills in hearing, smelling, and noticing tiny details others would miss. In the past shes helped the FBI and former agent Adam Lynch, whom she holds at arms length even though hes deeply in love with her. After Kendra (Close Your Eyes, 2012, etc.) has dinner with Waldridge, who claims to be visiting California to raise funds, he goes missing . Kendra works with the police and FBI to find him but also calls on Lynchs special resources. Another member is soon added to the team: tough ex-Army private investigator Jessie Mercado, whom Waldridge had hired to watch one of his colleagues. A friend of Lynchs whos following up on the Night Watch project in England is killed soon after sending him some puzzling photos of a lab in a supposedly empty factory. At length Kendra realizes that the project Waldridge is working on has something to do with creating working organs and that someone is using all means available to force him to reveal his secrets. Despite dire warnings from Lynch and Jessie, she insists on taking part in a dangerous rescue attempt. Despite the requisite mysterious evildoers and violence, this thriller remains curiously unsatisfying, perhaps because the formidable skills the heroine displays dont include common sense.

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September 1, 2016
When the surgeon who miraculously restored Kendra Michaels' sight after 20 years is kidnapped, there is no question that Michaels will do everything in her considerable power to rescue him. Surprising Michaels during one of her university lectures, Dr. Charles Waldridge drops cryptic warnings about his new project but vehemently warns Michaels not to press him for additional information. The last person to have been seen with him, Michaels attracts the attention of local police when he disappears, but armed with the protection and influence of FBI agent Adam Lynch and a new cohort, Jessie Mercado, Michaels is able to infiltrate the cabal hijacking Waldridge's medical research and skills. As the body count rises and threats come closer to Michaels' own door, there is no time to waste to discover Waldridge's location and put an end to those who would corrupt his life-saving medical expertise. The mother-and-son Johansen team (The Naked Eye, 2015) delivers another high-stakes, high-powered thriller in the popular Kendra Michaels series.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2016, American Library Association.)