"chilling"
In San Diego County, California, recent law school
graduate attorney Toby Dillon opens his shingle out of his
condo overlooking the Coral Canyon Country Club where he
also serves as an assistant tennis instructor. Tony's
legal practice deals with adoptions. Movie stars Brogan Barlow and Rita MacGilroy want to adopt
so they turn to Toby, who was Brogan's high school pal
when they were nerds. Toby arranges things with a single
neighbor Sammy who became pregnant from a casual
inseminator as the state would say. Toby takes Sammy to
the hospital in his nightwear, but instead of her going
inside with him, she vanishes with his car. Besides
Toby's PJs embarrassment and concern for Sammy, things
went great even though the biological mother gives birth
outside a hospital. Toby's clients have a daughter to
lovingly raise together until a day later a phone call
nukes their world; With Tony they go to see the birth mom
to obtain the truth, but she has vanished. Other follow-
ups go nowhere as those they need to speak with are either
dead or never existed in spite of the paper trail. THE BABY GAME is a fabulous tale that starts off as a
simple family drama, but quickly turns into an exciting
action-packed thriller. Once the call comes, the story
line accelerates from a celebrating couple with their
friends to a deep tense investigation in which nothing
goes right. Randall Hicks insures his exhilarating story
line seems realistic with the tidbits involving adoption
so that the audience has a one sitting chilling
investigative novel that feels as if it could happen. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted June 21, 2005
SummaryA new attorney, Toby Dillon, hedges his bets by remaining
the part-time tennis pro at the country club. Then his
idyllic life changes when his two childhood friends, Brogan
and Rita, Hollywood's glamour couple, ask his help in
adopting a baby. The media's feel good story curdles into
danger when the baby is kidnapped. When the expected ransom
demand never arrives and the police turn up nothing, Toby
and Brogan try to find answers on their own. First they
think the baby's birth mother is responsible, but suddenly
she's missing too, and their suspects start turning up dead.
They soon learn there's more at stake than a kidnapping, and
the answers may trace back to their shared childhood.
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