Name: Outlaw
ISBN: 9780547390178

Stephen Davies

Kidnapped by a man who claims to be a remorseless outlaw with terrorist ties, British ambassador's son Jake and his sister, Kas, begin to doubt their captor's identity when they discover unsettling facts about the corrupt local government. By the award-winning author of Hacking Timbuktu.

Outlaw

Lynn Braden

Outlaw is about Jake Knight who is a spoiled bored rich kid living in an English boarding school. When he gets kicked out for playing a game called "geothimble," in which students try to find objects that have been planted by other players in impossible to reach locations, Jake is sent to Burkina Faso in Africa where Jake's father is the British Ambassador. Jake and his sister, Kas are soon kidnapped leading them to more adventure and political intrigue than Jake could ever have imagined. From the African desert to tribal villages to small African communities, Jake and his sister find themselves in a battle between local outlaws and the corrupt government. 

This book had lots of action, twists, and suspense. Some of the dialogue was not spot on making the characters less than realistic. Also, the shift in terms mixing English, French, and African languages made some of the characters and settings hard to follow and some of the story hard to understand, but overall, this was an exciting adventure story.