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Child X

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Pub Date 9 Oct 2020 | Archive Date 25 Nov 2020


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Description

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 compulsive gambler whose debt has spiralled out of control. His violent creditors have run out of patience. A retired gangster 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 identity several 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 he do the decent thing and hand over a child killer? Or try to understand what drove a twelve-year-old boy to kill?

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...


A Note From the Publisher

Mick Lee is a former private investigator from Milton Keynes. His first book was a fictionalised re-telling of the great train robbery of 1963, completing the story where it had been left unsaid by the gang of thieves. The Men Who Robbed The Great Train Robbers was published by Matador in 2013.

Mick Lee is a former private investigator from Milton Keynes. His first book was a fictionalised re-telling of the great train robbery of 1963, completing the story where it had been left unsaid by...


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EDITION Ebook
ISBN 9781800467972
PRICE US$3.99 (USD)
PAGES 200

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