Cosmo Hill realizes his time is running out at the Clarissa Frayne orphanage since most orphans are used up at a young age. He takes the first opportunity to escape and becomes involved with a group that hunts supernatural Parasites feeding off the life-force of humans.

Strange and captivating, the story becomes more complicated as it proceeds.
related-Sci Fi, orphans, supernatural, vigilante
note: author of the acclaimed Artemis Fowl series
RL=5th-YA