436 pages
English language
Published April 17, 2010 by Michael Joseph.
The Sanctuary of the Redeemers: vast, desolate, hopeless. Where children endure brutal cruelty and violence in the name of the One True Faith.
Lost in the Sanctuary's huge maze of corridors is a boy: his age uncertain, his real name unknown. They call him Cale. He is strange and secretive, witty and charming - and violent. But when he opens the wrong door at the wrong time he witnesses an act so horrible he must flee, or die.
The Redeemers will go to any lengths to get Cale back. Not because of the secret he has discovered. But because of a more terrifying secret that lies undiscovered in himself.
There was a peculiar ring to the whole atmosphere of this book, which kept me reading and interested. I didn't quite expect it to end the way it did, i.e. without much in the way of a closing, so if you're after a good story with an ending to satisfy you, you'll have to read the rest of the series to see if that happens, as will I!
