Breakthrough Lies: A Jack Kendall Mystery, Book Five - Softcover

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They promised redemption. They delivered lies.

What if your child was taken from your home—not by kidnappers, but by people claiming to help?

Florida, 1987.

Sixteen-year-old Julie France McLaughlan has never used drugs. Yet she is seized from her home and placed in Breakthrough, a powerful teen rehabilitation program celebrated by politicians, praised by the media, and trusted by desperate parents.

Her mother knows something is terribly wrong.

With nowhere else to turn, she asks investigative reporter Jack Kendall for help.

As Jack begins asking questions, he uncovers a hidden world of fear, manipulation, and psychological abuse operating behind Breakthrough's carefully crafted image. Teenagers are isolated. Parents are controlled through guilt and intimidation. Complaints disappear. And powerful people make sure the program remains untouchable.

At the center of it all is George Macy, a wealthy developer whose influence reaches from Florida's Gulf Coast to the halls of Congress.

The deeper Jack digs, the more dangerous the truth becomes.

Inspired in part by real adolescent treatment programs I investigated as a young newspaper reporter, Breakthrough Lies is a gripping investigative thriller about corruption, power, family, and one journalist's determination to expose a system built on deception before more children disappear behind its doors.

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