The Night of the Hunter

'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect' Daily TelegraphTwo young children hold the key to a secret stash of money - and a relentless psychopath is on their trail...Harry 'Preacher' Powell his fingers tattooed with LOVE and HATE is out of prison and doing the Devil's work. He knows his ex-cellmate hid $10000 somewhere. He knows how to charm his way into unsuspecting lives. And he knows where the man's family lives. As he hunts them down a terrifying game of cat and mouse begins. One of the great chase novels The Night of the Hunter is a savage tale of innocence and evil in the Depression-era South.