Sleep With Slander

It started out as just another job for Long Beach private eye Jim Sader. Some old guy had spun him a story about his daughter's illegitimate child, who had been secretly adopted five years ago. Now an anonymous letter suggested that the boy was being brutally mistreaed. Sader thought he knew all about the self-deception and cruelty of the human heart, but nothing had prepared him for the sight of a starved and terrified five-year-old with whip-marks on his back.