| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
279 pages ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
Part-time preacher Chester Cash calls himself Daddy Love. He has abducted, tortured, and raped several young boys into being his lover and his 'son'. Kidnapping Robbie from his mother at a mall, he confines the child in a small box and gradually brainwashes him over subsequent years into believing that they are father and son. Dinah, the boy's mother, who was savagely injured during the abduction, clings to hope that her son is alive. |
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Daddy Love, aka Reverend Chester Cash, has for years abducted, tortured, and raped young boys. His latest victim is Robbie, now renamed 'Gideon, ' and brainwashed into believing that he is Daddy Love's real son. Any time the boy resists or rebels he is met with punishment beyond his wildest nightmares. As Robbie grows older he begins to realize that the longer he is locked in the shackles of this demon, the greater chance he'll end up like Daddy Love's other 'sons' who were never heard from again. Somewhere within this tortured boy lies a spark of rebellion ... and soon he will. |
| Provenance |
Gift of Paul and Mary Haas. |
| Subject |
Child molesters -- Fiction.
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Child molesters. |
| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Subject |
Serial murderers -- Fiction.
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Serial murderers. |
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Sexual abuse victims -- Fiction.
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Sexual abuse victims. |
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Kidnapping -- Fiction.
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Kidnapping. |
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Kidnapping victims -- Fiction.
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Kidnapping victims. |
| Genre/Form |
Psychological fiction.
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Psychological fiction.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- Daddy Love. 1st ed. New York : Mysterious Press, c2013 1781852472 (OCoLC)826685127 |
| ISBN |
9780802120991 |
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0802120997 |
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