The uninvited by Jensen, Liz, 1959- instant download

The uninvited by Jensen, Liz, 1959- instant download

307 pages ; 22 cm, As chilling murders by children grip the country, anthropologist Hesketh Lock has his own mystery to solve: a bizarre scandal in the Taiwan timber industry. Hesketh has never been good at relationships: Asperger's Syndrome has seen to that. But he does have a talent for spotting behavioural patterns, and an outsider's fascination with group dynamics. Nothing obvious connects Hesketh's Southeast Asian case with the atrocities back home. Or with the increasingly odd behaviour of his beloved step-son, Freddy. But when Hesketh's Taiwan contact dies shockingly and more acts of sabotage and child violence sweep the globe, he is forced to acknowledge possibilities that defy the rational principles on which he has staked his life, his career and, most devastatingly of all, his role as a father, Human relationships are not Harris' forte: Asperger's Syndrome has seen to that. But he has a talent for spotting patterns. So when an unprecedented double epidemic of industrial sabotage and child violence starts sweeping the globe, he begins to form connections that force him to question the factual principles on which he has staked his life, his career, and -- most devastatingly of all -- his role as a father ..