Intervention
Written by Terri Blackstock
Narrated by Cassandra Campbell
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About this audiobook
In this New York Times bestselling novel from Terri Blackstock, Barbara Covington has one more chance to save her daughter from a devastating addiction by staging an intervention. But when Emily disappears on the way to rehab—and her interventionist is found dead at the airport—Barbara enters the darkest nightmare of all.
In the wake of Barbara’s husband’s death, her eighteen-year-old daughter Emily has developed a severe addiction to drugs, and Barbara is afraid her son Logan will pursue the same path. In desperation to save her daughter, Barbara enrolls Emily in a rehab program, complete with an intervention agent scheduled to securely escort Emily to the facility.
Emily and the agent set off for Georgia, but when the interventionist is murdered in the parking garage of the Atlanta airport and Emily disappears into thin air, Emily becomes the prime suspect. Convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt that her daughter is innocent, Barbara and her son race to Atlanta to try to find Emily before Detective Kent Harlan arrests her for the murder.
Detective Kent has questions of his own. His gut tells him that this is a case of an addict killing for drugs, but as he gets to know Barbara, he begins to hope he’s wrong about Emily. Fearing for Emily’s life, Barbara maintains her daughter’s innocence. But does she really even know her daughter anymore?
The panic level rises as the mysteries intensify: Did Emily’s obsession with drugs lead her to commit murder—or is she another victim of a cold-blooded killer?
- New York Times bestseller
- Full-length contemporary Christian suspense novel
- Part of the Intervention series:
- Book One: Intervention
- Book Two: Vicious Cycle
- Book Three: Downfall
Terri Blackstock
Terri Blackstock has sold over seven million books worldwide and is a New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author. She is the award-winning author of Intervention, Vicious Cycle, and Downfall, as well as such series as Cape Refuge, Newpointe 911, the SunCoast Chronicles, and the Restoration Series. Visit her website at www.terriblackstock.com; Facebook: tblackstock; Twitter: @terriblackstock.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Absolutely loved it! Fast paced, action packed, so real, and a great message!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I really liked Intervention by Terri Blackstock. It was an awesome book that told the story of a teen addicted with drugs that with her mother and brothers unrelenting help eventually came to Christ. Her father died a couple of years ago, so that was why she chose to turn to drugs-it was her way of grieving. This book really tells the tale of how others are affected by the actions of an addictive person within the family. However, on her way to intervention, her interventionist gets killed and she gets kidnapped. So her mother and little brother go on a search to find her.The love of the mother for her daughter was never extinguished even though it appeared her daughter would never come around. How many parents would mortgage their home to pay for treatment of an unwilling child? That's what Barbara Covington did and it paid off though not in the way she expected. During the time the daughter is kidnapped, she learns what Christ did for her. He took all of her pain and suffering at the cross so she could have eternal life in Heaven. I thought the book was awesome because the plot involved a teenage girl coming to Christ after a life of drugs. She finally realized what Jesus had done for her, so that she wouldn't have to. I think this is a book with a lesson to be learned. I would definitely recommend this book to everyone.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This thrilling read really kept my interest as I rooted for the mother to figure out what was happening to her daughter. The mother is Barbara and she is determined to find help for her daughter Emily. Emily has a drug problem and holding an intervention and then sending her to a treatment facility seems to be Barbara's best chance to help her. So she confronts Emily and then sends her off on a plane with the counselor from the treatment facility. Except then the counselor turns up dead at the airport, and Emily is no where to be found. Barbara is devestated, but she is also determined to find her daughter and help her - no matter what. The twists and turns of the story kept me riveted to the story, and I could relate to Barbara's intense need to help her child. All of the characters seemed realistic and relatable, and I liked the way that their relationships with one another played out. I would definitely recommend this one to fans of suspenseful yet family centered stories.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5There is good suspense once the novel gets going, but it was tougher for me to like the main characters early in the novel. The "bad guy" kind of comes out of left field partway through the book too.What I liked: Blackstock didn't glamorize the drug addict's life. She let us see how much the people around the addict suffer as well as showing insight into what goes through the addict's mind; Barbara and Lance both seem to love Emily despite what she's put the family through; Lance is still able to talk to Harlan about God even with all that's happened; Emily reaches out to God and finds He is still there, waiting for her to come to him; What I didn't like: Road Back Recovery's methods seem a bit off to me (based on Kent Harlan's visit there and what is recorded on the blog Barbara Covington reads); Barbara chooses the first rehab center that comes up on her search of Christian rehab centers--apparently without doing any further research into the treatment center--since she's paying big bucks to do this, one would think she'd want some assurance they had a decent treatment regimen; Lance doesn't listen to his mom and uses manipulative techniques to get her to give in to him--I'll justify the one where he calls Harlan to tattle on his mom when he thinks she's going to get herself into trouble, but others were not done for unselfish reasons;
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5very engaging and hard to put down...excellent character development.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Not one of my favourites by Blackstock because I felt that she didn't work hard enough to make us care about the drug-addicted daughter or explain the motivation of the mother but an interesting read. I don't know how she will address the underlying attraction between the mother and the cop considering they live across the country from one another in the second book...
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A single mother engages an interventionist to escort her drug addict daughter to a rehabilitation center. They never even get there as the interventionist is found murdered in her vehicle and the girl has gone missing. Is the teenage girl the perpetrator or a victim? This is the story of a mother's anguish through her child's dark journey of substance abuse. A widow's story of doubt and self-recrimination as to how she had 'failed' her children. Most of all, a story of a woman's strength in holding together her sanity, her faith, her family... A high-octane suspense thriller that grips the reader from the start and never lets go. I couldn't turn the pages fast enough. 5 stars!!!
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5First of all, I enjoy Christian fiction when well-written and engaging. I am over halfway through this book and I keep hoping it will get better. The main characters, Barbara Covington and her son Lance are on a mission to find their daughter and sister Emily, who disappears while enroute to a detox/rehab center. The interventionist is murdered and Emily is the prime suspect.The writing seems repetitive and overly simplistic and the characters do not engage me at all. It is a book I pick up and hope that I will begin to enjoy; however life is too short to read bad books and I feel I will abandon this one.Terri Blackstock is a favorite of mine with her series "Restoration" and I thought this would also be great. Not so. I recommend the "Restoration" series by Blackstock highly. The characters were very engaging and real. I felt a real sense of caring and wanting to know what happened next and eagerly picked up the book to find out. Not the same here.I do not see where there is much mention in the book of faith or God or Christianity as some readers have said, and I am over halfway through. Maybe that comes later on.This one by Blackstock is a "miss" for me. I also have "Double Minds" by this author and I hope it is better. Not recommended.