Résumé : The seventeenth novel in Anne Perry's acclaimed William Monk series. 1864 - Monk and his wife Hester are doing their best to care for Scuff - a homeless boy slowly recovering from a terrifying ordeal of a child prostitution ring. Although Scuff's evil abductor is dead, there is no suggestion that the ring has been broken. Monk is determined to find the remaining children and uncover the men funding the operation. In an illicit world of blackmail, vice and corruption, Monk must follow the trail - and his conscience - wherever it leads, ...