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Child X

✍ Scribed by Mick Lee


Publisher
Troubador Publishing Ltd; Matador
Year
2020
Tongue
en-US
Weight
139 KB
Category
Fiction
City
Kibworth Beauchamp
ISBN
1800467974

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✦ Synopsis


Does a child that kills with no remorse deserve a second chance?
What if another child did nothing to prevent the death, and is offered a chance of redemption?
It is 1999 and the glorious Millennium is approaching. Ray is a struggling private investigator and compulsivegambler whose debt has spiralled out of control. His violent creditors have run out of patience. A retiredgangster offers to square his debt if he tracks a man down.
Carl is hiding in a cult that masquerades as a telemarketing company. He has changed his identityseveral times and becomes embroiled in a death that promises to make him more visible.
As Ray homes in on his prey, he discovers a dark secret about the man he has been tasked with finding.A secret that links to his own guilty past, when he could have prevented another child's death. Will hedo the decent thing and hand over a child killer? Or try to understand what drove a twelve-year-oldboy to kill?

✦ Subjects


Private investigators -- Fiction


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