Description
An ordinary day. Rachel drops her daughter at the bus stop and rushes off to get on with her day. A little later, someone rings from a withheld number. Thirteen-year-old Kylie has been abducted. "If you want your daughter back, you must pay a ransom… and abduct another child," says a distorted female voice.
The kidnapper turns out to be a mother whose son was abducted earlier. If Rachel does not meet the demands, the kidnapped children will die. Both of them. This is how the Chain works, a terrifying organisation that turns victims into criminals and makes its unknown perpetrators millions richer. Once you become a link in the Chain, you will never break free of it.
Rachel is an ordinary woman, but she will have to transform herself into a criminal, make dramatic moral choices and do terrible things. The Chain is merciless and elusive. The rules are simple: get the money, choose a victim, and then commit a cruel act that only yesterday would have seemed completely unacceptable to you.
The creators of the Chain know that parents will do anything for their children. They built it so that each new person drawn into it protects its anonymous structure. This time, however, they have met an equal opponent. Rachel is sharp, desperate and never gives up. Will she manage to save her daughter and break the CHAIN?
The publication rights to the book have been sold to 37 countries. The film rights were bought by Paramount Pictures.
McKinty has just leapt to the top of my list of crime classics. He writes boldly and in superb style. A true master of the pen.
Dennis Lehane, bestselling author of: Gdzie jesteś, Amando? and Ciemności, weź mnie za rękę
This book tempts you to read at a gallop, but don't let it carry you away. Literature like this – exceptionally perceptive, intelligent and full of black humour – should be savoured.
Tana French, author of the series Zdążyć przed zmrokiem and the bestsellers Wiedźmie drzewo and Ostatni intruz