The story starts out with a young woman named, Alex Prévost, who is kidnapped, savagely beaten, and thrown into a wooden cage. Her abductor does not explain why she is there and only comes around to beat her and take pictures before returning her to the cage. Worse, no one really knows who Alex is nor why she would be taken; which leaves the police with not much to go on when trying to find her. Commandant Camille Verhoeven, reluctantly takes on the case and has to follow the tiny connections of Alex's past in order to find her. Will Camille find Alex before she dies of thirst or eaten alive by rats? And why is in this situation?
AND if this description has not scared you off already, trust me this story gets WORSE! There are many passages that describe torture and abuse. If you are okay with reading suspense or horror novels with graphic details then this book will not bother you. For me it just makes me shake my head and wonder how did the author think up such things and hopefully these were not "real" things that have happened to people.
Read-a-likes: Archie Sheridan series by Chelsea Cain, Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson, The Hypnotist by Lars Kepler
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