by Mo Hayder (Author)
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. DI Jack Caffery has been newly seconded to the Major Crime Investigation Unit in Bristol. He 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 ...
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Bantam Press
Published: 10 Mar 2008
ISBN 10: 0593056418
ISBN 13: 9780593056417
Book Overview: DI Jack Caffery is back on the beat in Mo Hayder's terrifying new bestseller.
Prizes: Shortlisted for CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger 2008.