As countless critics and millions of
readers know. no one portrays the face
of evil as memorably and as chillingly
as John Coyne, bestselling author of
Fury and The Legacy. Now, in CHILD
OF SItADOWS. he gives us a novel
more disturbing and more enthralling
than any he has written before, a novel
certain to be acclaimed as the shocker
of the year.
Melissa Vaughn is a New York City
social worker increasingly frustrated
with the ineffectiveness and heartless-
ness of the modern urban bureaucracy.
Then the boy named Adam enters her
life.
Discovered scrounging amid the
tunnels beneath Grand Central Sta-
tion Adam is a feral child, a product
of a murky, subterranean world of vio-
lence. Marked by a completely hairless
head and commanding silvery eyes. he
is cursed with a mule. autistic nature
vet blessed with uncanny powers, only
gradually to be revealed.
Deternlined to save one child from
the city s clutches. Melissa quits her
job and takes Adam to the remote and
spectacular Blue Ridge Mountains of
North Carolina. Once there. Adam
exhibits an astonishing artistic genius,
brilliantly painting vivid scenes of bru-
tality and darkness on virtually every
available blank spacet.
Then Melissa begins to realize it is
her secret nightmarish past a past she
bas desperately tried to suppress, that
Adam is depicting.
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