Small-time landscaper Mitch Rafferty's life becomes a nightmare when he receives a call on his cell phone from a stranger who has kidnapped his wife and is giving him sixty hours to come up with an impossible two million dollars for her safe return.
Detective Alex Cross's investigation of a series of bank robberies in Washington, D.C. which have led to the deaths of bank employees and their family members, puts him on a collision course with the mysterious criminal known as "The Mastermind.".
An innkeeper just back from the First Crusade disguises himself as a court jester to save his wife, who has been abducted by an evil duke searching for a holy relic.
Detective Alex Cross is investigating a string of murders when his fianc?e is kidnapped, and soon he becomes obsessed with finding the homicidal maniac who is trying to ruin his life.
When Rachel's illegitimate baby brother is kidnapped by a travelling band of revivalists in 1940, she sets out with her grandfather, a hired hand, and an eccentric neighbor in a desperate attempt to steal him back.
On Christmas eve in New York City, seven-year-old Brian is kidnapped when he tries to recover his mother's wallet, which has been stolen by a pickpocket.
Recounts the further escapades of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third as he continues his Viking training during which he escapes from a boatload of Roman soldiers and searches for his kidnapped dragon.
When camper disappears from the dangerous lookout at Skull Cliff, cousins, Jeff, David, and Claire wonder if it is the old town curse at work. Then a ransom note is discovered and everyone is in search of a kidnapper.
When two teenage boys vanish on a camping trip, a stranger claims that one owes him $2,000. The boys' sister volunteers to repay the money while continually looking for clues that he is alive.
