MISSING THINGS

An intense and gripping thriller, inspired by an event that took place in the early 90s in Israel.

One Friday afternoon, Micah gets into his car and sets out for Tel Aviv. Suddenly, the passenger door is yanked open and a young man, armed with a pistol, bursts into the vehicle. Micah is held hostage at gunpoint: "Drive, or I'll put a bullet in your head." Horror and fear accelerate as Micah tries to figure out what this stranger wants from him, why he's been kidnapped, and where they are going. Micah's memories bubble to the surface as he tries to balance his quiet nostalgia for life and a more urgent need to survive. As they ride into the night, Micah starts to pick up small details about his kidnapper, and soon this gun-toting stranger is getting under his skin.

And then tragedy strikes, but not in the way either Micah or his erstwhile kidnapper thought it would. As their lives collide, the people who love them most try to piece everything together and find themselves tangled in a tragic web of their own making. This is a heartbreaking story of families thrown together by the ugliness of fate, who continue to hold on to one another after the dust has settled.

NOA GUTER SAGI was born in 1972 and raised in Jerusalem, Israel. She works as a social worker and a therapist. MISSING THINGS is her first book. The storyline was inspired by an event that took place in the early 90s in Israel.