The author of brilliant detective stories and thrillers, British writer Mo Haider published her debut novel Birdman on the threshold of the 21st century. Some reviewers found this book too cruel, but this did not stop it from becoming a worldwide bestseller. Exactly a year later, The Sunday Times named Haider's second book, The Treatment, a bestseller. Then the main character of all subsequent novels in The Walking Man series, Jack Caffrey, appears. Outrun the Devil (2011) is the third book in this series, which won the Edgar Award for Best Novel. For Caffrey, an ace detective, a routine car theft case turns into horror: an eleven-year-old girl, the daughter of a priest, is kidnapped along with the car. Soon a similar story is repeated with another child. However, the kidnapper is elusive... Meanwhile, police sergeant Flea Marley gets down to business - petite, agile, like a monkey, brave, she sets out to search for girls in deadly places...