内容简介：
Stephen Larkin is back in his native Newcastle, working as an agency journalist--"but he's bored, so he jumps at the chance to track down a child abuser with friends in high places. A cynic like Larkin is automatically suspicious of people like Alan Swanson. A charismatic local chancer and self-styled Minister for Youth, Swanson is the man behind the 'Rebirth of the Region' project--"is his interest in kids a chance for a photo-opportunity or something more sinister? Larkin thinks he knows all about the evil that men do, but nothing has prepared him for this.