One moment there's a hand in yours and one moment it's gone.for tony hughes, the emptiness of those seconds that turn into panic stricken minutes, then weeks, then years, it is a moment he cannot forget and now he can never let go.what happened to tony and emily's son oliver when they holidayed in france? Was he lost? Kidnapped? Trafficked? Murdered? The not knowing haunts them, tears at them, shreds their marriage.set in england and france over eight years, the missing follows tony and emily's story along with the french police who witness a small town and a way of life overturned by events as they witness a man out of control, out for the truth, out for some kind of justice.in a world full of hope and despair, passion and injustice how far will one man go to ease the pain inside? The answer lies in the missing.