Crime

A crime thriller set in the Orthodox Jewish Community in North West London. 8 yr old Josh Hardman,an only child, is abducted from his room one night. The kidnapper, who keeps in touch by apparently untraceable e-mails, isn't after money, so the motive is as much of a mystery as who has taken the kid, and is he alive or dead? Hard bitten Detective Inspector Colin Sommers, himself an assimilated Jew, finds himself reluctantly sucked back in to his roots to find Josh, and possibly another lost son, himself.

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