<p><b>FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF <i>THE ADVERSARY</i></b><br><br>Little Nicolas is a delicate, timid schoolboy, with an excitable, if morbid imagination ¿ the child of an overbearing father. So, two weeks away on the class trip is already enough to fill him with dread. But when a child goes missing, Nicolas¿ mind turns to gruesome possibilities, impelling him to take up the role of detective ¿ and edge closer to a truth more shocking than Nicolas¿ worst fears. <br><br>Translated by Linda Coverdale <br><br><b>''There are few great writers in France today, and Emmanuel Carr¿ is one of them'' <i>Paris Review</i></b><br><br><b>Elegant, pocket-sized paperbacks, VINTAGE Editions celebrate the audacity and ambition of the written word, transporting readers to wherever in the world literary innovation may be found.</b></p>