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The Chain
by Adrian McKinty
The Chain is a reality-shattering thriller with ethical dilemmas sprinkled throughout. It is terrifying and makes you question, “What would I do for the person I love most in this world?”
Rachel Klein is a woman who is trying to get her life back on track. After her divorce, her cancer remission, and finding a new job, she is struggling but manages it all for the sake of her thirteen year old daughter Kylie. Rachel would do anything for her daughter, and she unfortunately must prove it. On a seemingly ordinary night, Rachel receives a call from a disgruntled woman claiming that she has kidnapped Kylie and that she must follow her demands if she wishes to see her daughter again.
The first demand is simple: deposit $25,000 of bitcoins into the account specified. But, as the woman says on the phone, “It’s not about the money, it’s about keeping the Chain intact.” For Rachel to save Kylie, she must kidnap someone else. Whether it’s someone’s child, spouse, parent, dog; it doesn’t matter. She will need to research her victim to make sure that they can afford the ransom, that they won’t go to the police, and if they have what it takes to continue the chain of kidnappings.
With the help of her former brother-in-law, a veteran with a heroin addiction, she will have to do the most abhorrent and cruel thing she could do to another human being. But if she does it, how could her daughter ever look at her again?
Adrian McKinty has done such an amazing job with The Chain. I had such a difficult time imagining what I would, or morally could, do in Rachel’s position.
Rachel Klein is a woman who is trying to get her life back on track. After her divorce, her cancer remission, and finding a new job, she is struggling but manages it all for the sake of her thirteen year old daughter Kylie. Rachel would do anything for her daughter, and she unfortunately must prove it. On a seemingly ordinary night, Rachel receives a call from a disgruntled woman claiming that she has kidnapped Kylie and that she must follow her demands if she wishes to see her daughter again.
The first demand is simple: deposit $25,000 of bitcoins into the account specified. But, as the woman says on the phone, “It’s not about the money, it’s about keeping the Chain intact.” For Rachel to save Kylie, she must kidnap someone else. Whether it’s someone’s child, spouse, parent, dog; it doesn’t matter. She will need to research her victim to make sure that they can afford the ransom, that they won’t go to the police, and if they have what it takes to continue the chain of kidnappings.
With the help of her former brother-in-law, a veteran with a heroin addiction, she will have to do the most abhorrent and cruel thing she could do to another human being. But if she does it, how could her daughter ever look at her again?
Adrian McKinty has done such an amazing job with The Chain. I had such a difficult time imagining what I would, or morally could, do in Rachel’s position.