Salford Intake Two MISSING

By Anthony Gardner

A boy is not missing from the system.

He is missing from the people who love him.

Jake Thorne has not disappeared.

He has been transferred, assessed, reviewed and placed somewhere nobody can properly name. Every record says he is safe. Every official answer says contact must wait.

But Jake knows something is wrong.

Inside North, he is being watched, tested and taught that the people who love him are a risk to be managed. Outside, Sarah Vale follows a trail through schools, safeguarding teams and buried records, discovering a system built from old decisions, inherited authority and nobody willing to take responsibility.

Jake's grandad refuses to let him become another file.

Sarah is prepared to lose everything to find the truth.

But proving the system exists may be harder than escaping it.

And Jake is running out of time.

Salford Intake Two: Missing is a dark British speculative noir thriller about family, control and the danger of a system that believes it knows where you belong.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HF8GB3NS
• ISBN13: 9798192090046
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 618 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.5" x 5.5"