Word: abduction
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lookout for a round-faced man with bushy hair, a thin mustache and no familiarity with ice skating. He may have tried to abduct TONYA HARDING, apparently unaware of who she is or that one of her husbands did time for plotting to bash someone in the knee. Police are investigating Harding's claim that a man forced her into her truck outside her home, ordered her to drive and slapped her several times. Harding escaped by steering the car into a tree, grabbing the keys and running. "Her injuries are minor," says her publicist, David Hans Schmidt, who used...
...third storyline in the novel, Fisher detours to another setting by giving focus to her mother and grandfather. They abduct Grandpa from the nursing home where he was so rudely placed by his second wife, and take him "home" to Texas...
These details by no means exhaust the plot; they simply set in motion John's long, arduous journey toward self-discovery. The idea that, somewhere, a powerful person has designs on his life soon changes into an ominous reality for the boy. Strangers try to abduct him. His mother's small inheritance is wiped out through bad investments, all recommended by an attorney who is supposed to protect her anonymity and interests. The two of them are forced to flee from their village and hide in the capaciousness of the capital: "Long before I saw London I smelt...