Maybe his problems began years ago, when he was a policeman a good cop makes an enemy with each arrest. He doesn't even know whom he is running from-only that whoever is framing him as an embezzler has already circulated an open contract in the prison system for his death. Felker is not like the others Jane has helped, and everything about him is disquieting. Jane opens her door to find in her house an uninvited visitor named John Felker, the latest to run to her for sanctuary. Many of her clients have been innocent people whom the institutions of society have been too slow and cumbersome to protect, but an increasing number have been like the gambler Harry Kemple: people who aren't especially admirable but who aren't bad enough to deserve to die prematurely. Jane knows all the tricks in fact, she has invented several of them herself in the ten years she has been teaching fugitives to live with new identities. Still, the supply of runaways-and the need for a woman who will take great risks to save them-have never been greater. But the shaded forest paths her Seneca ancestors might have followed on such missions have all been converted to superhighways, and now the safest way stations are crowded urban buildings that offer the camouflage of anonymity. Jane Whitefield is a Native American guide who leads solitary outcasts through hostile territory to escape the vengeance of their enemies. In assisting the mysterious former cop John Felker, Jane is drawn into a trap that will take all of her cunning and the knowledge of her ancestors to escape. Vanishing Act introduces Thomas Perry's popular heroine Jane Whitefield, a Native American guide who secretly provides sanctuary to fugitives seeking new identities.

Vanishing act by thomas perry