Pan, London, 1999, 1^st pr.  ISBN 0-330-38992-0.  MMPB, 363 pages.  Wraps show some edge and cover wear, small colour chips and light impressions; faint reading crease on spine.  Binding tight; pages lightly tanned.  ‘Jenny Campbell had promised her husband Fraser that they would take a break from fostering.  But the plight of a small boy found wandering the streets of Garston in just his nightclothes proves impossible to ignore.  So far the child has refused to speak, and the police have no clues as to who he is or where he comes from.  Only one fact is clear – something, or someone, has left him terrified …  And as a nationwide appeal is launched to uncover the boy’s identity, it seems the dreadful events that have left him so traumatized are about to invade Jenny’s secure and loving world – and rip it apart …’ (from rear wrap)