Gideon's Way — J.J. Marric

an award-winning mystery about Gideon of the Scotland Yard in which Gideon is faced with three cases: the murder of a candystore owner; an ipidemic of mindless shootings that holds a London suburb in terror; and, most personal and painful, the kidnapping of the baby grandson named George -- Gideon's name. They kidnapped Commander Gideon's own baby grandson...