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"Alice Vega is sensational—I want to see lots more of her." —Lee Child, #1 New York Times best-selling author
Alice Vega has made a career of finding the missing and vulnerable against a ticking clock, but she's never had a case like that of Zeb Williams, missing for thirty years. It was 1984, and the big Cal-Stanford football game was tied with seconds left on the clock. Zeb Williams grabbed the ball and ran the wrong way, through the marching band, off the field, and out of the stadium. He disappeared into legend, replete with Elvis-like sightings and a cult following.
Zeb's cold trail leads Vega to southern Oregon, where she discovers an anxious community living under siege by a local hate group called the Liberty Boys. As Vega starts digging into the past, the mystery around Zeb's disappearance grows deeper, and the reach of the Liberty Boys grows more disturbing. Everyone has something to hide, and no one can cut to the truth like Alice Vega. But this time, her partner Max Caplan has his own problems at home, and the trouble Vega finds might be too much for her to handle.
Louisa Luna understands suspense, tension, and character like only the best writers in crime fiction do—and she may well write the best interrogations in the genre. Hideout is pure adrenaline and Luna's most intimate thriller yet, a classic cold case wrapped in a timely confrontation with a terrifyingly real network of white supremacists and homegrown terrorists.
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- ISBN: 9780385545549
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October 1, 2021
After two well-received outings (e.g., The Janes), Alice Vega returns to demonstrate her talent for uncovering seemingly unrecoverable truths. This time she's seeking Zeb Williams, who vanished three decades ago after running out with the ball during a tied college football game. Alice traces him to southern Oregon, where a white-supremacist hate group called the Liberty Boys is menacing the community. Alice must take them on even as she deals with troubled partner Max Caplan at home.
Copyright 2021 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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January 24, 2022
In Luna’s exhilarating third Alice Vega mystery (after 2020’s The Janes), wealthy Anton Fohl asks the Sacramento Valley private eye to find Zeb Williams, a man Fohl’s wife dated during college who disappeared in 1984 at the end of the Big Game between Cal and Stanford. With seconds left in the fourth quarter and the score tied, Cal kicker Zeb was supposed to attempt a field goal, but instead he picked up the football and ran toward the wrong goal and out of the stadium, heading for parts unknown. Vega travels to Ilona, Ore., the last place Fohl says Zeb was seen. In Ilona, she meets schoolteacher Cara Simms, a target of harassment and vandalism, who confirms that Zeb lived there for a short while a few years earlier. When the town’s “ethically challenged sheriff” proves less than interested in investigating the crimes against Cara, Vega noses around and unearths a local branch of a white nationalist network, with which Zeb was apparently involved. Vega’s PI partner, Max Caplan, lends support, but it is the no-nonsense Vega who carries the day. Readers will want to see a lot more of this kick-butt hero. Agent: Mark Falkin, Falkin Literary. -
Starred review from February 15, 2022
The town of Ilona, Oregon, is under siege from a local hate group, the Liberty Pure, whose members do as they please while the "ethically challenged sheriff" looks the other way. PI Alice Vega ends up in Oregon on the trail of Zeb Williams, who vanished over 30 years ago after grabbing the ball and running off the field at a Stanford football game. He has become something of a Bigfoot figure, with sightings from time to time keeping his legend alive. Alice is on her own for this case, with her partner, Max Caplan, otherwise occupied. Finding Zeb becomes secondary to straightening out Ilona's "alt-right incel bowlcut skinhead survivalist paranoid psychos." She takes a beating, goes home, heals (eventually managing one-armed headstands with the other arm in a cast), and then returns with a fury that singes the corners off the pages. This is the third Alice Vega novel (after The Janes, 2020), and they just keep getting better, thanks to brilliant characterizations and lots of surprises. Jack Reacher fans will adore her. The vengeful Alice is as intriguing as the bride in Kill Bill. Viva la Vega!COPYRIGHT(2022) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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