The boy and the bastard
By: by Russell Newell
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Indianapolis, IN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9781457536700; 9781457546242
Subjects: Fiction; Kidnapping; Fathers and sons; Cults
Description: Seven year old Jack Delaney is kidnapped by a cult on Christmas Day, 1977. His father searches for him, not knowing why he was taken or if his ex-wife is involved. The police suspect the father of foul play and the media almost destroys his life.
Notes: "At a time before Amber Alerts and America's Most Wanted, missing children on milk cartons and DNA forensics, on Christmas Day, 1977, the little boy of the premier mutual fund manager in America disappears. Thus begins Gus Delaney's long journey to find his son and discover what happened. Was he kidnapped? Is he still alive? Is his ex-wife involved? When the police begin to suspect Gus, he loses everything and descends from the pinnacles of success, where the world adores him, to a private hell on Earth, abandoned and alone. Meanwhile, Jack Delaney is brought into a bewildering world by strange people who tell him he has been chosen and must forget about his old life. Isolated from the outside world, Jack learns to forget about a father he believes stopped looking for him long ago, until unfamiliar, forbidden feelings and the revelation of a dark secret cause him to question everything he once believed"--Back cover.