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Best friends, Akemi and Maria do everything together including lunch at school and Friday night sleepovers at each other's home. But when they disappear following a school volleyball game, their world and everyone's close to them, turns upside down. Retired army intel officer, Parker McLeod, proprietor of The Garhole Bar on the far west end of Galveston Island only wants to mind his own business and stay out of other people's way. But when he learns one of the missing girls is the grand- daughter of his friend, Parker rolls into action. He teams with the feisty female detective of Galveston PD's juvenile division. Knowing that every hour is critical, Parker and the detective race against the clock to find the girls. As the search intensifies, Parker must deal with the girl's grandfather who insists on running his own search. Parker is caught in the impossible task of juggling between the two and yet keeping focus on the prize, the safe return of the girls.

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Review for Girls Lost: - 5 out of 5 stars! Feb 16, 2023 Publishers Review Hardy Roper's latest book, Girls Lost, begins on a fearful note when teenage friends Akemi and Maria are kidnapped by sex traffickers looking for new recruits for their prostitution ring. Knowing that time is critical in rescuing the girls, the feisty, female police detective in charge of the case recruits ex-army intel officer Parker McCloud to aid in the search. Parker-well known to readers from Roper's four previous books-takes to the streets to find them. Tension builds as the scenes move quickly between the innocent captive girls and the brutal kidnappers. Roper does an excellent job of developing the characters through sympathetic views into the hardships the girls have already experienced in their young lives and the ugliness of the sex/slave trade represented by their captors. The reader experiences the sense of urgency facing Parker and the police as time rushes by without word of the girls. Girls Lost is an easy read, filled with the author's usual cast of eclectic characters, as well as his familiar vivid descriptions of Galveston Island. This is A. Hardy Roper's best Parker McCloud book yet. Don't miss it! Review for Girls Lost: - 5 out of 5 stars! Feb 12, 2023 by --Saucer Parker McLeod, a retired U.S. army intelligence officer, now owner of the Gar Hole bar on west Galveston beach is on a roll again. As in all of Hardy Roper's thrillers, Parker comes to the rescue again in the author's new book, Girls Lost. Parker is always willing to help ladies in distress, especially when the ladies are two young innocent teenage girls that have been kidnapped, presumably by sex traffickers. He teams up with old friends from the Gar Hole bar, and with some new friends at the Galveston Police Department. Never a dull moment as Parker overcomes one obstacle after another in his search for the girls. It's another of Roper's fast-paced books I couldn't put down until the end. The setting is Galveston, Texas, and Roper's vivid descriptions of the island makes me want to buy a house and retire on West Beach. Review for Girls Lost: - 5 out of 5 stars! Feb 12, 2023 By --Anne Sloan Author of Her Choice, a historical novel set in 1928 For the fifth volume in his Parker McLeod's series, Roper crafts a compelling page turner which deepens our understanding and awareness concerning the trafficking of children. Galveston's proximity to Mexico provides the stage, and Roper's finely drawn characters enable the reader to witness the tragedy of this crime from multiple points of view. The girls, their parents, the community, and law enforcement officers combine to provide suspense and gut-wrenching anxiety about the fate of the abducted victims.

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As a fourth generation Texan and Galveston resident, A. Hardy Roper writes from a wealth of knowledge about the island's storied past and vibrant present. Mr. Roper's great grandparents arrived from Germany in the 1852 and entered through the Port of Galveston, at the time, second only to New York for immigrant destination.Today's Galveston is an eclectic mixture of 'old money' and Victorian mansions checkered among indigent neighborhoods of African Americans and Hispanics, all weaved tightly together, as if huddled against the onslaught of the next storm like the epic 1900 hurricane that claimed 6,000 lives.From its 19th Century past of pirates and buried treasures, to its 20th Century lifestyle of bootlegging, bawdy houses and gambling, Galveston Island offers an endless setting for mystery and intrigue.A. Hardy Roper has studied its culture and its history. His Parker McLeod thrillers weave an intricate path of deceit and mayhem as the city struggles to balance its colorful past with the inevitable collision of sleepy 'island life' and the hurried weekend rush as the playground of Houston's wealthy baby-boomers.Contact Hardy on Facebookwww.facebook.com/TheGarholeBar

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