God Save the Child / Robert B. Parker / 205 pages / November Challenge Deceased Author

The story opens with a missing fourteen year old boy.  The authorities do not seem overly concerned.  It isn't at all uncommon for teenagers to escape parental restrictions in a bid for temporary freedom.  When a ransom note arrives, however, the case becomes a kidnapping with threats received on multiple fronts, and Spencer  intensifies his investigations.  He is relentless in his pursuit of a body builder, Vic Harroway.  It is not enough for Spencer that the whereabouts of the boy has been determined.  Spencer wants to know why he was taken in the first place.  As always, Parker has written a gripping page-turner, unfortunately littered with objectionable language.