Synopses & Reviews
As Amy sets out to sea with her family on a yacht, she's only thinking about the peaceful waters and the warm sun. But she doesn't get either after a group of pirates seize the boat and its human cargo, and the family becomes a commodity in a highly sophisticated transaction. Hostage One is Amy's father--the most valuable. Hostage Three is Amy, who can't believe the nightmare she's in. But something even stranger happens as she builds a bond with one of her captors, making it brutally clear that the price of life and its value are two very different things. From one of today's most exciting contemporary voices in YA comes a commercial page-turner you won't be able to put down.
Review
"Perceptive and harrowing. . . . An inventive narrative construction . . . plays on the highly unstable situation of this utterly compelling read." —Publishers Weekly, starred review "Intelligent, empathetic, and eye-opening." —Booklist, starred review "Vivid and poignant. . . . The narrative twist is brilliant, taking readers on an emotional ride to the very last page." —School Library Journal, starred review
Synopsis
The taut, emotionally loaded, devastatingly powerful thriller from the Printz award-winning author of In Darkness.
About the Author
Nick Lake is the author of In Darkness, winner of the Michael L. Printz Award, and the forthcoming novel, There Will Be Lies. He is also the Editorial Director for fiction at HarperCollins Children's Books. Nick lives near Oxford. @NicholasLake • www.in-darkness.org