The Treatment is a 2001 novel by British crime-writer Mo Hayder. The novel is based around the theme of pedophilia and it won the WH Smith Thumping Great Read Award in 2002. It features her protagonist DI Jack Caffery.
A husband and wife are discovered imprisoned in their own home near Brockwell Park in South London. It is a hot summer and they are badly dehydrated, they've been bound and beaten, and the husband seems close to death. Rory Peach, ...
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The Treatment is a 2001 novel by British crime-writer Mo Hayder. The novel is based around the theme of pedophilia and it won the WH Smith Thumping Great Read Award in 2002. It features her protagonist DI Jack Caffery.
A husband and wife are discovered imprisoned in their own home near Brockwell Park in South London. It is a hot summer and they are badly dehydrated, they've been bound and beaten, and the husband seems close to death. Rory Peach, their 8-year-old son, is missing. Detective Inspector (DI) Jack Caffery is one of the police team and the disappearance of the little boy rekindles memories of his brother Ewan who was abducted as a 9-year-old and never seen again.
Caffery tries to find the boy at the same time as helping his girl friend get over her own sexual attack and following up on clues which might allow him to find out Ewan's fate. Patterns of child sexual abuse start to emerge and Caffery tracks down a young man who was abused in the same park many years earlier as a...
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