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Hostage Three by Nick Lake (view source)
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''We stand on the diving platform of our yacht, in the brutal sunlight.''
''Dad's arm is around my shoulders. I can semall his sweat, the tang of it. This is fairly unusual. In real life, Dad smells of Clinique's moisturiser for me and a casual day for him is taking off his cufflinks. Now, he's in a torn, short-sleeved shirt. But then this whole situation is so far from normal it's ridiculous.''
''There's a gun pointing right at my head.''
''The pirates are above us, the blazing ball of the sun overhead, frying us all, bleaching the barrel of the gun to a searing, dancing white.''
You want to read on, right? Right?! Well, then you'll need to go back to the beginning of the story - and that's not the beginning of this book. Amy's family have left on a round-the-world trip. The intention is to mend relationships after what has been a turbulent time. Amy has had a meltdown, messing up her A levels, partied too much and gone a bit too far with the piercings. She can't stand her stepmother and guards a catalogue of resentments against her workaholic, remote father. But the voyage turns into crisis when the family's yacht is kidnapped by Somali pirates. And the family is put under even more strain when a relationship develops between Amy and Farouz, the pirates' translator. As Amy learns more about Farouz and his background, she also discovers a great deal about herself, her family, and about life itself...