In an unassuming house on a quiet residential street in south London a husband and wife are discovered imprisoned in their own home. Badly dehydrated they’ve been bound and beaten; worse still their young son is missing. When DI Jack Caffery of the Met’s AMIT squad is called in to investigate the similarities to events in his own past make it impossible for him to view this new crime with the necessary detachment. As Jack attempts to hold his own life together in the face of ever more disturbing revelations the real nightmare begins…Horrifying unforgettable intense The Treatment is a novel that touches the raw nerve of our darkest imaginings.