Eve Duncan, a forensic sculptor, and her partner, Joe Quinn, are drawn into the search for CIA Agent Catherine Ling's son who was kidnapped nine years earlier at the age of two. The boy was taken by a Russian mobster, Sergei Rakovac, as punishment to Ling for interrupting his reign of criminal terror. Rakovac has tortured Ling during those long nine years with stories of her son's death.
Rakovac has enjoyed CIA protection because of information he supplied to them and, not wanting to disrupt his usefulness, the agency has done nothing to help Ling recover her son. But Rakovac's time is running out and his involvement with large scale terror attacks has prompted the CIA to order his elimination. The pressure mounts as Ling is determined to find her son, if he's still alive, before Rakovac's death.
I enjoy Ms. Johansen's books and have read all of the ones in the Eve Duncan series. While enjoyable to read, the CIA's use of a brilliant fourteen year old girl in this dangerous game of cat and mouse made CHASING THE NIGHT extremely unbelievable.
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