Hungry Eyes

$10 · Offered by Gauntlet Press

Imagine Katie Beers the 10-year old kidnapped and imprisoned in a crude cell by a family friend for sixteen days in 1993 at the age 23: Is she a well-adjusted adult because of love lavished upon her by caring foster parents? A frumpy housewife who abuses her own children? Or possibly something far more heinous? Such is the premise of Hungry Eyes the story of a street-wise youngster, in the mold of Katie Beers, victimized by a negligent mother, and abducted by a family friend. The child feigns suicide to escape eyes that continue to haunt her, and disappears. Thirteen years later the Vigilante is stalking rapists and child molestors who have slipped through the judicial system with a slap on the wrist. Deidre Caffrey, who as a young reporter gained the kidnapped child s confidence, is the only one who knows the Vigilante s identity. She determines to find the young woman to understand what triggered her rampage after 13 years of anonymity. Hungry Eyes explores the dark side of victimization and its aftermath. In ten or twenty years will women, abused as youngsters and deprived of their childhood, take feminism to its extreme and emulate their male serial killer counterparts? Hungry Eyes examines the relationship of two complex women whose lives are inextricably linked. There is no attempt to create the next Hannibal Lechter. This serial killer has many layers, and the reader is torn between empathizing with what drives her while condemning what she has become. Absolutely fabul

• Binding: Hardcover

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