Boston PI Spenser returns in this tense and twisty mystery from Robert B Parker's acclaimed and bestselling Spenser series.

When a fourteen-year-old boy disappears from a decent neighbourhood, everyone thinks he has run away. Everyone, that is, except private detective Spenser, who is hot on the trail of the missing boy; a trail that leads to corruption and a deadly partnership.

''Brilliant'' LOS ANGELES TIMES

''When it comes to detective novels, 90 per cent of us admit he's an influence, and the rest of us lie about it'' HARLAN COBEN