Out of Reach

Thomas Schaefer is haunted by a memory.

He has devoted a large part of his adult life to finding his kidnapped daughter.

Since Amber’s disappearance ten years ago, Schaefer has become an expert in the recovery of missing people – his particular speciality is rescuing young adults from cults.

Schaefer inhabits a dark world populated by sinister characters.

His obsession with finding Amber draws him down a desperate path.

His only seeming sources of succour are Doctor Harry Gilmore, a renown cult de-programmer, and Ellen Ovitz, a psychic Schaefer once consulted in his desperation to find his daughter.

Gilmore and Ellen represent different approaches to life – the rational and the spiritual – and Schaefer finds himself torn between the two.

Against his better judgment, Schaefer takes on a case that Gilmore brings him – the disappearance of a young girl, Katie Blake.

The case shares many similarities with Amber’s kidnapping – the two girls even look the same.

Schaefer meets Katie’s mother, Sally Blake and says he will find her missing daughter.

Schaefer starts by shaking down known pedophiles, but has little success.

He asks a police contact to investigate an occult symbol found at the scenes of Amber’s and Katie’s kidnappings.

As he encounters more things he cannot explain, Schaefer turns to Ellen Ovitz, who tells Schaefer that there is a dark cloud around him – that he must give up the search for his daughter if he is to have any hope of salvation.

Alistair Mathers, a renown occultist, discovers that Schaefer is at the heart of a dark conspiracy.

Schaefer cannot give up the search for his daughter, and finds himself struggling with the challenge of an increasingly macabre world. She is slipping further and further 'Out of Reach'.

When he is used to kill an innocent man and implicated in the murder of his police contact, Schaefer goes on the offensive and tracks down the people who are manipulating him.

Schaefer discovers that he and his daughter are part of an occult ceremony that goes back hundreds of years, and that there is much more at stake than their lives: their souls face the prospect of eternal damnation.

‘Out of Reach’ is a gripping occult thriller filled with twists and turns to delight and terrify.

Adam Hamdy is a British writer and film producer. His works have included the futuristic espionage thriller ‘Battalion’ and comic book series ‘The Hunter’.

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