I picked this one up because I wanted to revisit a blast from my own past. When I was a teenager, I read many of Lois Duncan's books. I remember on one vacation, I brought seven books with me. Most, if not all of them, were Lois Duncan. I finished five before we finished the over 8 hour car ride. It made for a long vacation for me. I was an only child spending a week at a fishing cabin with my parents and grandparents. It was loads of fun, but there was lots of down time as well. After that, I learned to ration my reading materials.
Anyway, this is a young adult thriller about a group of kids who think their English teacher is too hard on them. They decide to kidnap him and scare him into treating them all better, but things don't go quite as planned, and the title kind of gives it away. After that, high schoolers are trying to act like hardened criminals. Some of them are cracking right away while others seem to hold out longer. I won't say much else. The book isn't long. I finished it pretty quick.
This one's held up pretty good. At the time, you didn't have a bunch of security cameras to catch things, and not everyone had a cell phone. I remember really loving the writing, and I still do. I looked into what happened to Duncan, and I was saddened to learn that she moved away from writing thrillers and horror after her own daughter was murdered. The worst part was that the murder went unsolved until five years after Duncan's death.
Anyway, this book is so good. I'd like to keep track of some of the others I remember having. I remember some of the covers of the books I had, and I put the cover I remember on this post. The one connected to my Kindle version has unsurprisingly been updated. Good Book!
RIP Mr. Griffin.
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