Review: Three Weeks to Say Goodbye by C.J. Box
by Betty Webb
August 27th, 2009
Three Weeks to Say Goodbye
by C.J. Box
Minotaur, January 2009, $24.95
When suburban Denver couple Jack and Melissa McGuane adopt baby Angelina, their life seems complete—that is until Garrett Moreland, the baby’s birth father, shows up on their doorstep claiming he never signed away his parental rights. Garrett’s ties to gang-bangers and drugs add to the McGuanes’ anguish, but the boy’s father, a powerful federal judge, unaccountably takes his son’s side in the custody dispute. Over the McGuanes’ protests, Judge Moreland gives the couple three weeks to say goodbye to Angelina. The clock starts counting down and the suspense rises to an almost excruciating level, one that ensures readers won’t sleep until the conclusion.
Aided by childhood friends, a real estate millionaire and a disgraced cop, Jack and Melissa wage a battle to keep their baby, a battle that escalates into shattering violence. For a while, justice seems ephemeral, and evil triumphant, but C. J. Box is an old hand at twisting the knife in his readers’ guts, and granting reprieves at the last possible minute. His stomach-knotting plot alone would be enough to make this book extraordinary, but Box has peppered its pages with a host of wondrous characters, especially “Uncle Jeter,” a Wyoming mountain man who loves to play rough. Jack’s ranch hand parents, too, are beautifully textured, providing a stark contrast between the judge’s citified machinations and Wyoming’s pristine wilderness.
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