| As countless critics and millions ofreaders know. no one portrays the faceof evil as memorably and as chillinglyas John Coyne, bestselling author ofFury and The Legacy. Now, in CHILDOF SItADOWS. he gives us a novelmore disturbing and more enthrallingthan any he has written before, a novelcertain to be acclaimed as the shockerof the year. Melissa Vaughn is a New York Citysocial worker increasingly frustratedwith the ineffectiveness and heartless-ness of the modern urban bureaucracy.Then the boy named Adam enters herlife. Discovered scrounging amid thetunnels beneath Grand Central Sta-tion Adam is a feral child, a productof a murky, subterranean world of vio-lence. Marked by a completely hairlesshead and commanding silvery eyes. heis cursed with a mule. autistic naturevet blessed with uncanny powers, onlygradually to be revealed. Deternlined to save one child fromthe city s clutches. Melissa quits herjob and takes Adam to the remote andspectacular Blue Ridge Mountains ofNorth Carolina. Once there. Adamexhibits an astonishing artistic genius,brilliantly painting vivid scenes of bru-tality and darkness on virtually everyavailable blank spacet. Then Melissa begins to realize it isher secret nightmarish past a past shebas desperately tried to suppress, thatAdam is depicting. |
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