Between 2001 and 2011 there was a 206% increase in the number ofchildren taken to a country which had not ratified the Hague Convention on child abduction, an international agreement between certain countries which aims to ensure the return of a child who has been abducted by a parent.
Like Lehane's "Mystic River, " it involves the abuse and abductionof a child (before he became a full-time writer, Lehane worked as a counselor with abused children).