Out of the Dark (Paperback)

Just as an eight-year-old runaway boy comes running out of the dark to seek the help of barrister Trish Maguire, a car brutally knocks him over. As the casualty team fight to save his life they discover Trish's name and address sewn into his clothes and suspect he might be her son. But she knows he can't be. Recovering from a miscarriage the last thing she needs is to be responsible for a lost boy. The search for the boy's identity will take her into the darkest of ghettos where she witnesses the reality of poverty and despair. The gulfs between rich and poor and the grey line between justice and evil is a murky area that Trish has to confront in her quest for the truth. Realistic and pitiless in its description of contemporary illness, this is a major achievement. --Maxim Jakubowski --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Synopsis
The fourth in Natasha Cooper's Trish Maguire series, OUT OF THE DARK is a touching and gripping novel in the bestselling tradition of Frances Fyfield. An eight-year-old boy comes running out of the dark to find barrister Trish Maguire one wet Sunday night. Just before he can get to her, he's knocked over by a skidding car. Fighting to save his life, the casualty team find Trish's name and address sewn into his clothes. The police are convinced that he looks like her and must be her son. Only Trish knows he can't be. Recovering from a miscarriage, about to go to court with a career-changing commercial case, missing her partner, George, who is 5000 miles away, the last thing Trish wants is responsibility for a lost boy. But there is no one else. Her search for his identity takes her to a brutal inner-city housing estate, where she has to confront not only the reality of life for people whose Giros cannot be made to last the week, but also many of her own fears. News of a particularly brutal murder reaches her only hours before she learns that her erratic father is the chief suspect. It will take all her resolution and integrity to pick her way through the maze.

The gulfs between rich and poor, between the heroically honest and those for whom life and the law are always negotiable, rip off the last of Trish's self-protective blinkers. There are choices to be made and lives to be saved.

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