The Treatment by Mo Hayder
A couple is discovered chained and imprisoned in their own house in a peaceful neighbourhood of London. The worst information is still to come: their eight-year-old son has been kidnapped. They have been brutally beaten and are extremely exhausted. He discovers he’s dealing with much more dangerous forces than he’d thought and finds it harder and harder to keep his professional distance when the body is discovered and forensic evidence throws the case on its head, revealing alarming parallels to incidents in Detective Caffery’s own life. The investigation is rushing toward a devastating conclusion as the evidence grows and Caffery tries to maintain his own life.
The Treatment by Mo Hayder
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Once the pair is found, Detective Jack Caffery is contacted. A man and his wife were beaten, kept captive in their home for days, and then allowed to starve and dehydrate to death. And to make matters worse, their small boy is missing. Police are forced to wait until the youngster’s parents are able to speak when they are unable to locate the boy. He’s already dead when they finally locate him. Due to a past occurrence, Caffery finds it more difficult than the other cops to work in situations like this. When he was nine years old, his older brother Ewan was kidnapped and never returned.
The neighbour was suspected by the authorities, but no evidence was discovered, and the man was never detained. In the home across the street from his brother’s likely kidnapper and murderer, Jack grew up. Until he learns the truth about what actually transpired on that day many years ago, he won’t be able to give up the case.
Caffery’s suffering seemed to help him understand the type of mind capable of committing such murders. Everyone is certain that this kind of killer will attack again, so it’s a good thing. Caffery discovers an older case that is related but no one has previously connected, and this sets him on the trail of what he believes to be the killer’s next target family. Will he be able to identify the person before it’s too late?
The writing on police procedure by Mo Hayder is astounding. Her study was astounding. How on earth did she get such knowledge? The narrative is simply astounding, nevertheless, at the same time. Jack Caffery, another menacing, troubled lead detective, is in it. He has some moral ambiguity. Some of the things my editor writes, he wouldn’t let me write. It’s such a mindfuck, this novel. You’ll wonder, “What the hell was that?” afterwards. It’s the most disturbing, masterfully written novel you’ll ever read.
