From Amazon:
"Sometimes things are far worse than you can possibly imagine. Mo Hayder's second novel The Treatment takes us further into the heart of psychological darkness than we expect to go. Someone broke into the Peaches' house and left a husband and wife chained to radiators to die of thirst and starvation, taking their young son off to an even worse fate. Inspector Jack Caffery lost his own brother to abduction and murder, which makes his hunt for the killer perhaps rather too personal. Caffery is in a dysfunctional relationship with the equally disturbed sculptor Rebecca, who survived with him through the events of Hayder's Birdman; the edginess this gives him makes him at once a brilliant investigator of an insane crime and a danger to all around him. And the killer has already struck again--another family are chained up in their home, awaiting the worst atrocity of all...This is a compellingly dark thriller--Hayder's sense of South London as an overlapping patchwork of social worlds is particularly strong and she makes an ordinary place like Brockwell Park a site of deep unease. Hayder's imaginative intensity makes her book a powerful nightmare, but works just as well when describing Caffery's eventual healing. "

RELEASE NOTES:

At the Winchester meet-up

Caught at the Winchester meet. Thanks Nyassa, nice to meet you.

Blimey, what a book...definately not for the feint-hearted. It's compulsive reading, but takes you on a very dark journey which at times is sickening, especially when you remember that there are people out there like this. It is not a book to be read alone at night (not if you wish to go to sleep that is...).
Mo Hayder is a great storyteller. Her characters seem like real people, the plot complex and twisting and the way she deals with a very difficult subject is masterful.
I have read one of her other books, Tokyo, which was also quite stomach-churning in places, but equally unputdownable. Guess who's going to be a big feature on my wish list now?

Sending as RABCK to three104. SURPRISE......! Hope you like it.

Wow, it was a surprise! It sounds bad to say that I like this sick sh*t kind of book, but I do. Thanks so much.

2-21-06
Somehow I ended up with 2 copies of this so I putting this one in the Relayer's VBB for someone else to enjoy.

This book was unbelieveable. It boggles the mind that there are actually people out there like this. I honest-to-God could not put this book down. I was yelling encouragement to Jack the whole way. And, oh my God, poor Ewan..............

I'd say one of the top books I've read this year so far.

Going to xallroyx. Sorry for the delay.

got in the mail today as part of vbb--thanks!!!