The Treatment: 5 (Jack Caffery/Walking Man) - Softcover

Hayder, Mo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802146139 ISBN 13: 9780802146137

Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, 2012

Synopsis

Hayder's second novel after the hair-raising Birdman, The Treatment brings Detective Jack Caffery back to investigate the abduction of a little boy, a crime with disturbing parallels to Caffery's own troubled past. In a quiet residential area in London, a couple is discovered bound and imprisoned in their own home. Savagely battered and severely dehydrated, the worst revelation is yet to come: their eight-year-old son has been abducted. But when the body is found and forensic evidence turns the case on its head, revealing disturbing parallels to events in Detective Caffery's own past, he realizes he's dealing with much more sinister forces than he'd anticipated--and finds it increasingly difficult to maintain his professional distance. As the evidence mounts and Caffery struggles to hold his own life together, the case hurtles toward a shocking conclusion.

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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: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0802146139
• ISBN 13: 9780802146137
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352