James Bulger was just a few weeks shy of his third birthday when on 12 February 1993 he wandered away from his mum Denise in a shopping mall in Bootle. Grainy images from a security camera showed him trustingly holding the hand of ten-year-old Jon Venables as they walked away. Venables & his friend Robert Thompson murdered James in a crime that shocked the world. In this haunting book James' father Ralph describes how his world fell apart in the days that followed. In his darkest hours he drank to numb the pain & the stress tore his marriage apart. He tells how he learned to cope with his grief but the sorrow of James' death has never left him. He discusses the long legal battle to see justice for his son as he tried to prevent his killers being released early & his continuing fight to see them behind bars where they can't hurt anyone else. Above all he pays tribute to his son an adorable cheeky boy whose bright smile brought joy to his family's lives.