THE CHILD BUYER The novel The Child Buyer is a story of an investigation into the activities of Mr. Wissey Jones, a stranger who comes to the town of Pequot on information of national defense. The business of Mr. Wissey Jones is to buy for his corporation children of certain intelligences, in this case a ten-year-old named Barry Rudd, a boy genius of potentially critical value to national defense. A hearing is held and questions …showed first 75 words of 1479 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1479 total…interesting and would read a few pages and then put it down. I think that John Hersey did an excellent job writing this book and I hope I can read some other of his books soon. I think that this book had a great story and plot. But it just really did not spark my interest that well. I hope that his other books will be more uplifting to me in the time to come.