I Know My First Name is Steven - Mike Echols

It upsets me when I read the reviews of this book, and they have to include Cary. Steven was my best friend in the world and will always remain that way in my heart. Steve and I were classmates at Charles Wright on Dec 4, 1972, and it was my birthday party he attended the day before he was abducted. As 1 of 5 children, if I were to commit a crime, my sibblings should not pay the price. Steve is his own person, this book is about Steven who is and always will be a hero in my mind and in my heart. Stevens parents have been like a mom and dad to me, and it upsets me when they always include Cary in Stevens stories. Steven was the most wonderful friend ...

The chances of a child being kidnapped are very, very small indeed - yet it is a prospect which fills every parents' heart with absolute terror. And sadly, rare though it may be, it is an experience with which the Stayner family became all too familiar, when their seven year old son was snatched from outside his school gates by a paedophile. The Stayner's ordeal lasted for seven years and three months, during which time they and the police searched endlessly for any clue to Stevens whereabouts. Unknowingly, they came close to finding him several times - but, in the end, it was Steven who found them. Steven had been told by his kidnapper that ...