Globe Pequot / Lyons Press
Pages: 336
Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-4617-4623-2 • eBook • April 2008 • $17.99 • (£13.99)
Kristina Sauerwein is a former reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and for the Los Angeles Times, where she shared a 2004 Pulitzer prize for her reporting on California wildfires. She is now a freelance journalist who lives in Kirkwood, Missouri, the same town as the kidnap victims.
“An impeccable, on-target true crime narration, this book of loss, perversity and redemption illuminates not only the desperate pangs of a predator's sexual hunger but the steadfast love of two families for their missing children.”
—Publishers Weekly
“No stone has been unturned. This is a must read.”
—Jerald Barnes, a lieutenant with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department
and one of the nation's most respected hostage negotiators
“Invisible Chains is a tribute to the courage, persistence, and resilience of these boys and their families.”
—David L. Corwin, M.D., Medical Director at Primary Children's Center for
Safe and Healthy Families and Professor and Chief of the Child Protection and
Family Health Pediatrics Department, University of Utah School of Medicine
“…a deep psychological look at child predator Michael Devlin.”
—Caitlin Rother, author of Poisoned Love, the authoritative account of the Kristin
Rossum murder case, and Twisted Triangle, a narrative of the Patricia Cornwell
love affair case
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