Vanished
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: E-book
ISBN-13: 9780307567031
Description: Vanished tells the story of a man and woman faced with an almost unthinkable  tragedy--the mysterious abduction of their son.In the late 1930s, in the shadow of the Lindbergh kidnapping,  and as war looms in Europe, Marielle Patterson shares and elegant  Manhattan brownstone with her husband, Malcolm, and their little  boy, Teddy. Though the couple's lives are filled with secrets,  Marielle is a devoted wife and mother, and Malcolm is a man  everyone admires. On the eve of Teddy's disappearance, Marielle runs into her first  love, American expatriate Charles Delauney. And when Teddy is  kidnapped, Charles is first blamed, then arrested. But as the  search for Teddy widens, even Marielle is scrutinized by the FBI  and special agent John Taylor. Suspicions and accusations mingle  with terror and heartbreak as every threat, every failure, every fear,  is remembered, examined, explored.During Charles Delauney's trial, a series of revalations begins to unravel the about  Marielle, Charles, and Malcolm, uncovering the motives and  passions controlling their lives.Vanished is a tale of guilt, desire, suspense, and of  people drawn inexorably together, seeking the child who... vanished.From the Paperback edition.