The Treatment - Softcover

Hayder, Mo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0440236177 ISBN 13: 9780440236177

Publisher: Dell Pub Co, 2002

Synopsis

Detective Jack Caffery, the troubled hero of Birdman, returns to investigate a brutal attack on a London couple and the mysterious disappearance of their young son, a crime that brings him face to face with nightmarish memories of his own past. Reprint.

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Review:

Sometimes things are far worse than you can possibly imagine. Mo Hayder's second novel The Treatment takes us further into the heart of psychological darkness than we expect to go. Someone broke into the Peaches' house and left a husband and wife chained to radiators to die of thirst and starvation, taking their young son off to an even worse fate. Inspector Jack Caffery lost his own brother to abduction and murder, which makes his hunt for the killer perhaps rather too personal. Caffery is in a dysfunctional relationship with the equally disturbed sculptor Rebecca, who survived with him through the events of Hayder's Birdman; the edginess this gives him makes him at once a brilliant investigator of an insane crime and a danger to all around him. And the killer has already struck again--another family are chained up in their home, awaiting the worst atrocity of all...This is a compellingly dark thriller--Hayder's sense of South London as an overlapping patchwork of social worlds is particularly strong and she makes an ordinary place like Brockwell Park a site of deep unease. Hayder's imaginative intensity makes her book a powerful nightmare, but works just as well when describing Caffery's eventual healing. --Roz Kaveney

Review:

"'The first controversial British thriller of the new millennium' Val McDermid 'Treading the path blazed by Thomas Harris' Publishers Weekly 'Extraordinarily good' Daily Mail 'A major new talent' Guardian 'It'll scare the hell out of you' Elle 'Fearsome' The Times 'Horror to set the heart fluttering' Sunday Express"

About this edition

• Publisher: Dell Pub Co
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0440236177
• ISBN 13: 9780440236177
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 404