The Treatment

The Treatment is an utterly absorbing, gritty and gruesome thriller from bestselling and prize-winning authorHayder. Fans of Stephen King, Karin Slaughter and Stuart MacBride will not be disappointed. ‘One of the most frightening books I‘ve ever read . . . Hayder‘s gory insights into the dark side are compelling‘ GUARDIAN ‘Bleak, powerful . . . The Treatment is cleverly plotted and Caffery is a believable creation‘ OBSERVER ‘Chilling . . .the book is surprisingly hard to put down. The plot develops with satisfying unpredictability; the characters are compellingly drawn... its final twist a bravura savagery‘ DAILY TELEGRAPH ------------------------------------------ A quiet residential street in south London. A husband and wife are discovered, imprisoned in their own home . Badly dehydrated, they‘ve been bound and beaten. He is close to death. But worse is to come: their young son is missing . When Detective Inspector Jack Caffery is called in to investigate, the similarities with events in his own past make it impossible for him to view this new crime dispassionately. And as he digs deeper - as he attempts to hold his own life together in the face of ever more disturbing revelations about both his past and his present - the real nightmare begins. . . Readers can‘t put The Treatment down: ‘A terrifying and tense read‘ ‘An OUTSTANDING 5 star read that chilled me with its creepiness‘ ‘A page-turning crime novel‘ ‘An excellent read, kept me reading for hours at a time‘ ‘I could not put it down and read it in two days‘