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New. New Ships From Canada New 467 pages Book Description In this riveting, astute, high-tension thriller, the creator of psychologist sleuth Alex Delaware weaves a Dickensian tale of innocence, urban depravity, and the resilience of the human spirit, and brings to the page one of the most endearing and finely drawn characters in contemporary fiction Twelve-year-old Billy Straight--precocious, heartbreakingly perceptive, relentlessly moral--has fled the chaos and abuse of his life at home and is fighting to survive on LA 's meanest streets All alone, Billy has fashioned a precarious existence for himself, using principled tricks to nourish his body and his mind Late one night he watches from his hiding place as a man viciously butchers a woman The victim turns out to be the ex-wife of a television celebrity with a history of domestic violence, and Billy becomes the center of terrifying attention--from the media, from violent bounty hunters, and from the murderer himself As he runs for.