THE TREATMENT

Book ID/图书代码： 05430005B10553

English Summary/英文概要： 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 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 child. Caffery is convinced the attacker will be targeting another family and when Rory’s body is discovered and DNA from semen proves to be Rory’s father Alek, the case is turned on its head. Bite marks on the boy’s shoulder, however, do not match Alek’s dental pattern and Caffery then understands that Peach was forced to sodomise his son.

Another family with a young boy, 8-year-old Josh, has been imprisoned and Caffery slowly pieces together the clues to find out who they are. Caffery also gets very close to discovering that his brother is still alive. He suffered brain damage at the hands of a vicious child molester, a member of a paedophile ring who hand children round and make child pornography videos.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 英國倫敦布威爾公園的盛夏時節，一對夫妻被發現遭人囚禁在自宅多日。兩人身上皆有多處傷痕，男主人更是生命垂危。而他們八歲的兒子Rory Peach，也離奇失蹤。這起案件，讓警探Jack Caffery回憶起弟弟Ewan九歲時遭人綁架，自此失去消息。為了找出Ewan可能的命運，Jack決心接手調查。Jack發現有一名年輕男子在孩提時代，曾於同一座公園慘遭性侵。Jack相信兩起案件有所關聯，皆以孩童性侵案件為線索展開調查。而此時也有另一名八歲男童遭人監禁，Jack循線追蹤，終於查出犯下多起綁架孩童與性侵案的幕後黑手，也發現自己的弟弟Ewan尚在人間。(Vicky)

Awards/获奖情况：史密斯獎得獎作品Winner - WH Smith Thumping Good Read Award 2002

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此作者作品的書評,最新版權銷售都在http://www.gregoryandcompany.co.uk/pages/authors/index.asp?AuthorID=21 上面/Kate C.2010-8-24

’One of the most frightening books I’ve ever read...Hayder’s gory insights into the dark side are compelling’---GUARDIAN

’Chilling...the book is surprisingly hard to put down. The plot develops with satisfying unpredictability; the characters are compellingly drawn...its final twist a bravura savagery’---DAILY TELEGRAPH

’Bleak, powerful...The Treatment is cleverly plotted and Caffery is a believable creation’---OBSERVER

’Mo Hayder’s debut, Birdman, was deservedly an unqualified success...and Hayder has lost none of her descriptive expertise along the way’---TIME OUT

There is no better example of a contemporary masterpiece than Mo Hayder’s The Treatment. Whether she’s exploring social issues such as homelessness and child abuse or just scaring the bejeezus out of you, Hayder spins a tale that feels like a razor slicing apart your soul. The plotting is extremely disciplined, the sort of structure to which all authors should aspire, and the story is a searing dark tale that makes you bolt up in bed during the middle of the night, wondering if that sound you heard was the cat, or Death dragging its sickle across the floor.---Karin Slaughter, Sunday Telegraph

About the Author/作者介绍： Mo Hayder lives in London, England. After leaving school at 15, she worked as a barmaid, security guard, film-maker, hostess in a Japanese club, educational administrator, and teacher of English as a foreign language in Vietnam. Publication rights to Birdman, her first novel, have already sold in eight countries.
Mo Hayder為英國知名犯罪小說家。十五歲離開學校後，從事過各種不同行業，Birdman為她的第一部小說，版權售出8個國家。續集The Treatment，為她贏得史密斯獎(WH Smith Thumping Great Read Award，WH Smith為英國最大的連鎖書店，此為WH Smith一年一度頒發的獎項之一)。而第三部小說Pig Island與Ritual，則入圍了伊恩‧佛萊明鋼匕首獎(CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger，英國推理作家協會Crime Writers Association為紀念007作者Ian Fleming而頒發給英國最優秀的冒險小說獎項)。Mo Hayder作品Jack Caffery series共四集，單行本Tokyo，目前繁體版權都還在。

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