Type: Hardcover Condition: Used, Great. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Light rubbing wear on the cover and spine. No folded pages, no notes, no underlines or markings on the pages. Details: Child of Shadows, by John Coyne ISBN: Pages: 292 Published: 1990 As countless critics and millions of readers know, no one portrays the face of evil as memorably and as chillingly as John Coyne, bestselling author of Fury and The Legacy. Now, in CHILD OF SHADOWS, he gives us a novel more disturbing and more enthralling than any he has written before, a novel certain to be acclaimed as the shocker of the year. Melissa Vaughn is a New York City social worker increasingly frustrated with the ineffectiveness and heartlessness of the modern urban bureaucracy. Then the boy named Adam enters her life. Discovered scrounging amid the tunnels beneath Grand Central Station, Adam is a feral child, a product of a murky, subterranean world of violence. Marked by a completely hairless head and commanding silvery eyes, he is cursed with a mute, autistic nature, yet blessed with uncanny powers, only gradually to be revealed. Determined to save one child from the city's clutches, Melissa quits her job and takes Adam to the remote and spectacular Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Once there, Adam exhibits an astonishing artistic genius, brilliantly painting vivid scenes of brutality and darkness on virtually every available blank space. Then Melissa begins to realize it is her secret nightmarish past, a past she has desperately tried to suppress, that Adam is depicting.