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Yakov is eleven and lives in Russia. He smokes for three and half years. He steals whenever he can. Ha has to do it because he, other boys, and Misha need the dough for fags and food. He also turns tricks from the point he was nine. They don't care that he hasn't one of his hands. He is just little, cute, blond thing. He is little, shorter than his peers.

That day two people, a man and a woman comes to their place. They are English native speakers and talk Russian with their accent. The woman was looking at him and other three boys with interest. He knows from their talk that all the four boys are going to USA. Misha decided it will be better for every of them. The woman takes them to a car that is parked in the front of the building. Her friend stays with Misha to sign the papers. Being in the car they don't hear two shots.

They have no idea at this point Misha is dead.

Misha cared about them and was sure every of them will be a part of a decent family like a normal child in western countries. The woman promised they will be adopted but Tess writes medical thrillers, so you reader should ask one question:

Who is going to adopt the boys'organs?

Don't expect a child to be a protagonist, a protagonist is a woman because it's a Tess Gerritsen' book.

Will you be surprised if I tell you she's a doctor?

She lives her happy life. Her boyfriend asks her to marry him. She's in love, it can't be better. But her life gradually becomes worse and worse, at some point it is nothing less than a real horror. When you think her torment is at its peak, the torment turns to be a real agony, what she experiences is the worse thing you can imagine. If you think that the worst possible thing in such books is to be cut by a psychopath, you're wrong.

I admire the way the writer creates and shows the emotional bond between an eleven-year-old boy and an adult woman. Between Abby and Yakov.

Both trapped in the hornet' nest.