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Original Title:	The Last Child
ISBN:	0312359322 (ISBN13: 9780312359324)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Johnny Merrimon #1
Characters:	Johnny Merrimon, Clyde Hunt, John Yoakum, Trenton Moore, Tiffany Shore, Allen Hunt, Mr. Meechum, Barfield, Isaac Freemantle, Ronda Jeffries, Gerald Cross, John Pendleton Merrimon
Setting:	United States of America
Literary Awards:	Barry Award for Best Novel (2010), Anthony Award Nominee for Best Novel (2010), Edgar Award for Best Novel (2010), CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger (2009)

The Last Child ( Johnny Merrimon #1)

John Hart

Hardcover | Pages: 373 pages

Rating: 4.13 | 33366 Users | 4191 Reviews

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Thirteen year-old Johnny Merrimon had the perfect life: a warm home and loving parents; a twin sister, Alyssa, with whom he shared an irreplaceable bond. He knew nothing of loss, until the day Alyssa vanished from the side of a lonely street. Now, a year later, Johnny finds himself isolated and alone, failed by the people he'd been taught since birth to trust. No one else believes that Alyssa is still alive, but Johnny is certain that she is—confident in a way that he can never fully explain.

Determined to find his sister, Johnny risks everything to explore the dark side of his hometown. It is a desperate, terrifying search, but Johnny is not as alone as he might think. Detective Clyde Hunt has never stopped looking for Alyssa either, and he has a soft spot for Johnny. He watches over the boy and tries to keep him safe, but when Johnny uncovers a dangerous lead and vows to follow it, Hunt has no choice but to intervene.

Then a second child goes missing...

Undeterred by Hunt's threats or his mother's pleas, Johnny enlists the help of his last friend, and together they plunge into the wild, to a forgotten place with a history of violence that goes back more than a hundred years. There, they meet a giant of a man, an escaped convict on his own tragic quest. What they learn from him will shatter every notion Johnny had about the fate of his sister; it will lead them to another far place, to a truth that will test both boys to the limit.

Traveling the wilderness between innocence and hard wisdom, between hopelessness and faith, The Last Child leaves all categories behind and establishes John Hart as a writer of unique power.

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Title	:	The Last Child ( Johnny Merrimon #1)
Author	:	John Hart
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 373 pages
Published	:	May 12th 2009 by Minotaur Books
Categories	:	Mystery. Fiction. Thriller. Mystery Thriller. Crime. Suspense. Adult

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Ratings: 4.13 From 33366 Users | 4191 Reviews

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So many of my Goodreads friends have read, and loved, this novel. I have finally been able to find out why for myself.This book drew me in from the very start. There is a large cast of characters in this novel, yet each is woven into the story in perfect timing so it is easy to keep track. Even more, we discover aspects of each characters personality and psychological makeup that make them real and multi-dimensional. We are quickly drawn into their lives and even their backgrounds in an

Traveling Sisters Review by NORMA, BRENDA and JEN!!HART has a knack to keep you totally engaged with jaw-dropping moments that even surprised Normas deductive sleuthing skills.THE LAST CHILD by JOHN HART is an action-packed, tense, fast-paced, and a suspenseful thriller with lots of surprising twists and turns along the way that kept us all reading and guessing right to the very end.JOHN HART delivers a character driven story here that is brilliantly and cleverly written in such a skillful way

Johnny Merrimon's picture-perfect family is shattered when Johnny's twelve-year-old twin sister, Alyssa, goes missing. A year later, Alyssia is presumed dead. Johnny's father, broken by the girl's disappearance, has abandoned the family while Johnny's mother has descended into a blurry fog of pills and booze, and is being victimized by a wealthy twisted sexual predator. Abandoned for all practical purposes, Johnny continues his own search for his sister, refusing to believe that she is dead, and

Think Sling Blade meets Mystic River with a touch of A Prayer for Owen Meany . All three are among my favorite movies/books, respectively, but The Last Child made my concurrent reading about the Armenian Genocide feel uplifting by comparison.

This is a missing child mystery which turns very intense. Alyssa, an ebullient 12 year old went missing one afternoon , returning from school. Her twin brother Johnny's friend Jack claims he sees her being pulled into a van by an unknown person. Alyssa'sparents are devastated and their marriage suffers as the mother blames the father who was supposed to pick her up, but forgot to. Father too disappears one fine day. Mother, Katherine turns a drug addict and Johnny is almost an orphan, who will

3.75★This was my suspend reality read for the month. You know when the words mystery and thriller are used in the same sentence to describe a book, there is going to be too much coincidence and unbelievable thriller stuff happening to characters. But that is why books like this are written and read. Not to be taken too seriously. But not as intelligent as I was hoping it would be. Reality aside, factual details should still count. Example: Johnny's mother could not be coming off drug addiction

3.75★This was my suspend reality read for the month. You know when the words mystery and thriller are used in the same sentence to describe a book, there is going to be too much coincidence and unbelievable thriller stuff happening to characters. But that is why books like this are written and read. Not to be taken too seriously. But not as intelligent as I was hoping it would be. Reality aside, factual details should still count. Example: Johnny's mother could not be coming off drug addiction