I found this gem while perusing the Random House website — completely by accident! It’s the story of David, who goes on the run to clear his name when a child he knows goes missing. Pretty soon he, a gay unattached man, becomes the prime suspect and fearing for Andrew’s life, David tries to find him on his own, with help from an ex-cop.
I googled reviews after finding this and found one (or several, I could be mixing these up) that said it’s something that all men fear — being suspect like this. That made me remember a couple of things I’d read — that men were afraid to be teachers because of what they could be accused of and I remember reading something about Dads, where a guy said he’d never help kid who fell in the park or somewhere public because it’s so easy for that action to be misconstrued.
How sad is that?
Here’s the blurb for the book:
David Kingsgrove is a man on a mission. An ordinary man – and an extraordinary mission. It is a mission that will turn him into someone he never thought he would be: the king of the road, the loner on the highway, the crusader for a sort of justice he has never before had to seek.
Andrew had been a regular visitor to David’s home right up until the day he disappeared, walking out the front door to visit a neighbour. It doesn’t take long for the police to decide that David – a single man in his thirties, living alone – is their suspect. Soon Andrew’s parents will share that opinion. But David knows that he didn’t take Andrew. Realising that the only way Andrew will be found is if he finds him – the police, after all, are fixated on David as their suspect and are not looking anywhere else – David turns to the one person who he knows will help him: Matty an ex-cop now his personal trainer, whose own son disappeared several years before.
David’s crusade to find Andrew will also take him into his own dark heart – to do things he never thought he would have to do, and go places he has never wanted to go. And the choices David makes lead us all to ask: How far would I go to save someone I love? This is a compelling story that is almost impossible to stop reading – a hero’s journey, of sorts, with a momentum that is breathtaking even while the subject matter is confronting.
What do you think of this book?
