Those in Peril(1990)

Nicolas Freeling

This probing, disturbing novel introduces Monsieur Dampierre, a renowned academic and TV personality; a man who takes a special literature class for privileged eleven-year-olds. But all is not well when Henri Castang finds that two of his daughter’s schoolfriends show signs of child abuse. Castang finds himself and his family moving ever closer to the dirty and dangerous world of criminal vice.