The Bad Place Sylvian Hamilton a pelican with a retractable

a pelican with a retractable beak and a very agile monkey

secrets are revealed and hidden and the events of that long-ago summer become part of a legendary story

to end up in a fishing net

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The Bad Place Sylvian Hamilton a pelican with a retractableThe newspapers called it The Bad Place. A remote farm out on the Thames estuary, where six children were held captive for two weeks. Five of them got out alive. That was twenty years ago. Now adults, they meet up annually to hold a candlelit vigil for their friend who died. The only rule is that no one can talk about what happened the night they escaped. But at this year's event, one of them witnesses a kidnapping. A young girl, Sammi, is bundled into