RITUAL

Book ID/图书代码： 06540008B21544

English Summary/英文概要： Just after lunch on a Tuesday in April, nine feet under water, police diver Flea Marley closes her gloved fingers around a human hand.

The fact that there’s no body attached is disturbing enough. Yet more disturbing is the discovery, a day later, of the matching hand. Both have been recently amputated, and the indications are that the victim was still alive when they were removed.

Newly seconded to the Major Crime Investigation Unit in Bristol, DI Jack Caffery is attempting to leave behind his failed personal life in London. Still haunted by the disappearance of his brother, he is looking for a man recently released from a high security prison, a man who sleeps rough and walks the country roads as he re-lives the memories of a terrifying crime.

Caffery and Flea soon establish that the hands belong to a boy who has recently disappeared. Their search for him, and for his abductor, lead them into the darkest recesses of Bristol’s underworld, where drug addiction is rife, where street-kids sell themselves for a hit, and where an ancient evil lurks; an evil that feeds off the blood - and flesh - of others ...

RITUAL has recently been nominated for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award 2008 is the opening novel in Mo Hayder’s Walking Man Series

Chinese Summary/中文概要： Walking Man Series首部曲，入圍2008年CWA伊恩‧佛萊明鋼匕首獎，DI Jack Caffery一名出色的警探，小時候失去弟弟的陰影，總籠罩著Jack。帶著這份遺憾，使得Jack總是棄而不捨地追蹤犯人。擔任警方潛水夫的Flea Marley，成為Jack的好伙伴。一宗又一宗的命案，讓Jack離當年第弟失蹤的真相越來越近……(VC)

Awards/获奖情况：入圍2008CWA伊恩‧佛萊明鋼匕首獎
英國最優秀的犯罪小說作家
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版權已售：UK: Bantam; US: Grove/Atlantic; Czech Republic: Domino; France: Presses de la Cite; Germany: Goldmann; Serbia: Laguna; The Netherlands: Luitingh

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nominated for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award 2008

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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