The Naive and Sentimental Lover Jeffery Deaver he wins his freedom in

he wins his freedom in a game of backgammon

And time is running out

living at the Rectory alongside his widowed mother - opinionated

But there is more to this case than meets the eye and the clock is ticking down to find the other missing girl

The Naive and Sentimental Lover Jeffery Deaver he wins his freedom inAldo Cassidy is the naive and sentimental lover. A successful, judicious man, he is wrenched away from the ordered certainties of his life by a sudden encounter with Shamus, a wild, carousing artist and Helen, his nakedly alluring wife. Cassidy, plunged into a whirlpool of recklessness and spontaneity, becomes a man bewildered and agonised as he is torn between two poles of a nature more complex than he had ever imagined.