'[A] potent, brutal read... You won't be able to forget this story of a young boy robbed of his own childhood.' Marie Claire, best YA 2019
I tell myself I've chosen to live, but the water knows the truth. Waves brush my arms, soft as shroud linen.
The water knows I have to die.
Three years after his older brother is recruited by the Somali militia group Al Shaabab, Abdi and his family are kidnapped by Americans. In exchange for their freedom, he reluctantly agrees to go undercover to rescue his brother and help foil deadly attacks.
After months in their ranks, Abdi finally escapes. Haunted and alone on the streets of Kenya, he steals what he can to get by. But an arrest for petty theft sets in motion a chain of events that force him to confront the past he's been so desperately trying to forget.
| ISBN: | 9781786079121 |
| Publication date: | 3rd June 2021 |
| Author: | Natalie C Anderson |
| Publisher: | Rock the Boat an imprint of Oneworld Publications |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 455 pages |
| Genres: |
Age groups: adolescents Children’s / Teenage fiction: Thrillers / suspense Children’s / Teenage fiction: Military and war fiction Children’s / Teenage general interest: Politics and government Children’s / Teenage social topics: War and conflict issues Modern and Contemporary Fiction War, combat and military adventure fiction Fiction: narrative themes |