hostages

"Riley Vasquez is haunted by the brutal murders of the couple she was babysitting for. Max Cross is suffering under the shadow of a life-altering diagnosis he doesn't dare reveal. The last thing either of them wants is to spend a weekend away at a therapy camp alongside five other teens with "issues." But that's exactly where they are when three masked men burst in to take the group hostage. The building has no windows. The exits are sealed shut. Their phones are gone. And their captors are on a killing spree. Riley and Max know that if they can't get out, they'll be next, but they're about to discover that even escape doesn't equal freedom"--Back cover.

After shooting an intruder in his home, Chris is taken and held hostage by the brother of the thirteen-year-old intruder who demands to know exactly what happened the night of the shooting.

In 2013, Americans learned that a former FBI agent turned private investigator, who disappeared in Iran in 2007, had been there on a mission for the CIA. Robert Levinson's mission was secret and the hunt to rescue him revealed the shadowlands between crime, business, espionage, and the law, where secrets are currency and betrayal is commonplace.

On June 27, 1976, Air France Flight 139 was hijacked by terrorists to Entebbe Airport in Uganda. In the following days, passengers were singled out and held hostage. A week later, a small band of Israeli commandos raced 2,500 miles from Israel to Entebbe in the middle of the night and in ninety minutes killed all of the hijackers and freed 103 hostages. The terrorists were supported by Ugandan president Idi Amin, and this marked one of the first times the leader of a nation backed terrorist activities. The mission was named Operation Thunderbolt and it has become a legendary antiterrorist tale, and is especially pertinent to what is going on in the world today.

In the summer of 2000, Tommy Caldwell, Beth Rodden, Jason Smith, and John Dickey went rock climbing in Kyrgyzstan. The oldest was 25. Asleep in their portaledges high on the Yellow Wall in the Pamir-Alai Mountains, they awoke at daybreak to gunfire. Kidnapped by fanatical Islamic militants linked to Al Qaeda, they were used as human shields for ransom. The fanatical Islamic militants hid the climbers by day and marched them by night through freezing, treacherous mountain terrain, with little food and no clean water, and under the constant threat of execution. Their will to survive was their most important asset and led to the climatic decision that gained their freedom.

The teenage princess of a future-world Canadian superpower, where royal children are held hostage to keep their countries from waging war, falls in love with an American prince who rebels against the brutal rules governing their existences.

"Greta was her country's crown princess, and also its hostage, destined to be the first casualty in an inevitable war. But when the war came, it broke all the rules, and Greta forged a different past. She is no longer princess. Nolonger hostage. No longer human. Greta Stuart has become an AI."--Provided by publisher.

Nemesis is a Diabolic, a humanoid teenager and the galaxy's most deadly weapon, who masquerades as Sidonia, a senator's daughter, and becomes a hostage of the galactic court.

After waking up in a strange enclosure, a group of teens sets out to escape their captivity and discover the truth about their identities.

Henry, Anna, and Jose, the junior members of the Silver Jaguar Society, are on a mission in Paris to recover the Mona Lisa--but when senior members of the Society are taken hostage, it is up to Henry to rescue them while continuing to pursue the missing masterpiece.