My Real Name Is Lisa [Hardcover]

David Alexander (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1996

A remarkable love story forms during a Good Samaritan's quest to bring an abducted child home in this escalatingly suspenseful novel. When Peter Howard stumbles across a kidnapped girl in the middle of nowhere, he promises to take the six-year-old home--never realizing how difficult and dangerous keeping his promise will be.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Who wouldn't root for a successful young computer-company exec who risks his life to rescue an abused, kidnapped little girl he discovers one day in a convenience store? "My real name is Lisa" is the whisper that tips off Peter Howard about the bedraggled child, apparently the daughter of a brutish man who slaps her for talking to strangers. Fearing for Lisa's welfare, Peter confronts the man and, after a vicious fight, rescues the girl. The rest of this button-pushing suspenser by Alexander (Bandit, 1994) turns on Peter's difficulties in trying to get Lisa (who knows her street address, town and phone number, but not her state) home to her parents without calling the cops-who, he fears, will arrest him for kidnapping and will return the child to her tormentors-and without falling victim to the vengeful kidnappers. As his bloody run-ins with the gang pile up, Peter's decision to go it alone seems ever more absurd. The characters remain one-dimensional, though some variety is achieved through the multitude of points of view, including Peter's first-person narration. Readers aren't so much drawn into this story as they are deftly pushed into craving a big photo finish-which arrives on schedule, and with sentiment enough to make stones weep. Film rights to CBS.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal

When Peter Howard, a wealthy computer entrepreneur, encounters a woeful eight-year-old girl in a California store with an abusive adult, he impulsively follows them home, rescues her, and quickly finds himself in deep trouble. Lisa has been kidnapped and sold into sexual slavery. Howard is determined to deliver her to her parents in Oregon, but the kidnappers are hot on the trail. As in Peter Blauner's The Intruder (LJ 4/15/96), a man faces evil with little help from the social system and encounters great danger trying to go it alone. Alexander, a lawyer, artist, and author (e.g., Fane, 1981), shows Howard discovering much about himself under adversity even as he teaches Lisa to relearn trust and love. Still, it's the suspense of the chase that keeps one turning pages. For most popular collections.
Roland Person, Southern Illinois Univ. Lib., Carbondale
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 280 pages
• Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub; 1st edition (April 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0786703105
• ISBN-13: 978-0786703104
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,830,257 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best book I've ever read!!, February 12, 2001

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Carrie L Lecoupte (Port Orchard, WA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: My Real Name Is Lisa (Hardcover)

I picked this book up at the library the other day, it only took me 3 days to read it!! Where as normally a couple of weeks. I could'nt put it down!! Its full of suspence, and just when you think he's finally on his way to bring Lisa back something happens again!!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful story!, May 11, 1999

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This review is from: My Real Name Is Lisa (Hardcover)

This is a book you can't put down until it's finished and then you wish it wasn't over. The hero is so good and noble but still a very real person. I recommend this book to everyone.

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5.0 out of 5 stars I could not put the book down!, October 30, 1998

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Bryan Vallieres "bryan_v" (Nashua, NH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: My Real Name Is Lisa (Hardcover)

What a story! Could this (does this) realy happen? I loved the way the author told his story. I finsihed the book in one sitting because I could not wate to see what happened next. This is a truely riveting and disturbing tale that leaves you smiling in the end!