The Missing Children

"The monster is not the man in the shadows. The monster is the shadow itself-the vast, impersonal shadow cast by the institutions we build to protect us."

Thomas Kane, the meticulous archivist of the coal district, has spent four years documenting the machinery of institutional corruption. But his latest discovery reveals a pattern far more expansive and chilling than any ledger or medical trial he has encountered before.

When a discrepancy in the workhouse architecture reveals a "missing cou...