This story revolves around Kyle, a four-year-old autistic boy who is fascinated with airplanes, loves to be outside, and doesn’t grasp the concept of fear. After a horrible car crash in the biggest storm of the century, Kyle unbuckles him self from his booster seat and disappears into the swamp and forest around him. When his mother, Denise, bloody from all her injuries, is woken up by Patrick, a police officer that was taking the rounds, she frantically asks about her son. When she discovers that know one knows where he is and she set out to find him, but is stopped with the ambulance arrives and expects to check on her first. They determine that she is too weak from blood-loss and trauma to go out into the storm. Search troops are rallied up and Patrick sets out to find the little boy.
Patrick is an amazing character in my eyes because he relies solely on his instincts when finding the boy. He is told by the mother that Kyle will not reply verbally and isn’t afraid of anything. So Patrick does what he does best, he becomes the thing he wants to find and tracks him down. He thinks like Kyle as best as he can. He knows the boy is drenched so will walk away from water and try to stay dry. He guesses the small boy will walk with the wind, not against it and looks in every crook in corner.
The reason I find this book so fascinating is because its like being pushed off the deep end. There is nothing you can do but trust you instincts and hope that everything will be okay, because if you don’t, then you will never get anywhere. In this book, Patrick teaches Kyle to trust him as well as Denise. However, more than with Kyle, Patrick struggles with Denise to prove to her that he will always be there for them, unlike her past unsuccessful relationships that have ended badly. Everyone needs to learn to trust his or her guts and just jump into the deep end.
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