- The Treatment
infobox Book
name = The Treatment
author =Mo Hayder
cover_artist =
country = UK
language = English
series = Jack Caffery #2
genre = Thriller
publisher =Bantam Books
release_date =4 June 2001
media_type = Print (hardcover)
pages = 397pp
isbn = ISBN 0-593-04542-4
preceded_by = Birdman
followed_by = Tokyo"The Treatment" is a
2001 novel by British crime-writerMo Hayder . The novel is based around the theme ofpedophilia and it won theWH Smith Thumping Great Read Award in 2002. It features her protagonist DI Jack Caffery.Plot
A husband and wife are discovered imprisoned in their own home near
Brockwell Park inSouth 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 child. Caffery is convinced the attacker will be targeting another family and when Rory's body is discovered andDNA fromsemen 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 apaedophile ring who hand children round and makechild pornography videos.ee also
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List of books portraying paedophilia or sexual abuse of minors External links
* [http://www.mohayder.net/books.html#treatment The Treatment page at official website]
* [http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/crime/0,,517792,00.html Review from The Guardian]
* [http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/crime/0,,528901,00.html Review from The Observer]
* [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2001/06/30/bocrom30.xml Review from The Telegraph]
* [http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/crime/story/0,,500982,00.html Article from The Guardian]
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