Description
Product ID: | 9781800460270 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Child X |
Authors: | Author: Mick Lee |
Page Count: | 304 |
Subjects: | Crime and mystery fiction, Crime & mystery |
Description: | Select Guide Rating It is 1999 and the glorious Millennium is approaching. Ray is a struggling private investigator and compulsivegambler whose debt has spiralled out of control. His violent creditors have run out of patience. A retiredgangster offers to square his debt if he tracks a man down. Does a child that kills with no remorse deserve a second chance? What if another child did nothing to prevent the death, and is offered a chance of redemption? It is 1999 and the glorious Millennium is approaching. Ray is a struggling private investigator and compulsive gambler whose debt has spiralled out of control. His violent creditors have run out of patience. A retired gangster offers to square his debt if he tracks a man down. His target is hiding in a cult that masquerades as a telemarketing company. He has changed his identity several times and becomes embroiled in a death that promises to make him more visible. As Ray homes in on his prey, he discovers a dark secret about the man he has been tasked with finding. A secret that links to his own guilty past, when he could have prevented another child’s death. Will he do the decent thing and hand over a child killer? Or try to understand what drove a twelve-year-old boy to kill? |
Imprint Name: | Matador |
Publisher Name: | Troubador Publishing |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2020-10-28 |