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Hostage Three - Hardcover

Lake, Nick

 
9781619631236: Hostage Three

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<p><b>From the author of the Michael L. Printz award–winning novel </b><i>In Darkness</i><b> comes a critically-acclaimed, fast-paced thriller that's as dangerous as the seas on which it's set.</b><br><br>The last thing Amy planned to do this summer was sail around the world trapped on a yacht with her father and her stepmother. Really, all she wanted was to fast-forward to October when she'll turn<br>eighteen and take control of her own life.<br><br>Aboard the <i>Daisy May</i>, Amy spends time sunbathing, dolphin watching and forgetting the past as everything floats by . . . until one day in the Gulf of Aden another boat appears. A boat with guns and pirates – the kind that kill.<br><br>Immediately, the pirates seize the boat and its human cargo. Hostage One is Amy's father – the most valuable. Hostage Two: her stepmother. And Hostage Three is Amy, who can't believe what's happening. As the ransom brokering plays out, Amy finds herself becoming less afraid, and even<br>stranger still, drawn to one of her captors, a teenage boy who wants desperately to be more than who he has become. Suddenly it becomes brutally clear that the price of life and its value are two very different things . . .</p>

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<b>Nick Lake </b>is the much-acclaimed author of <i>In Darkness</i>, winner of the Michael L. Printz Award, and <i>Hostage Three</i>, which received three starred reviews and was named a <i>Publishers Weekly</i>, <i>School Library Journal</i>, and <i>Boston Globe </i>Best Book of the Year. He is also the Publishing Director for fiction at HarperCollins Children's Books UK. Nick lives near Oxford, England.<i> </i>Visit him online at www.in-darkness.org and on Twitter at @nicklakeauthor.

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