The movie TAKEN, starring Liam Neesen, sparked my first thoughts about the plot for THE PROTECTOR. In TAKEN, the hero’s sixteen-year-old daughter is kidnapped while visiting Paris, and Neesen, a retired CIA agent kicks butt in his quest to recover her before she disappears into the murky waters of the sex trade.
The movie got me thinking about the lengths to which a father will go to protect his daughter. What if that father were a top U.S. commander in Afghanistan and his daughter was targeted by a crazed terrorist? In THE PROTECTOR, my heroine’s father doesn’t personally protect her; instead, he chooses the one man capable of protecting her—former Navy SEAL Ike Calhoun.
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