It's fast-paced, plausible, packed with technology including unmanned surveillance apparatus and a remarkable beetle. It looks like our main characters may die at the end, but the author manages to inject humor at the most suspenseful time. This story has its moments of humor and suspense. He is known as the Chameleon, because of his talent for changing disguises quickly. Sor is a cross between Robin Hood and a terrorist, if terrorists were armed with only a slingshot. That turns out not to be so cut-and-dry, but they two of them do end up in the company of this outlaw, Tubuuku Sor. The first suspect in the kidnapping is a young terrorist outlaw, well known to the government. Jake and his sister waste no time being kidnapped. The author actually lives in this part of the world, with his family, as a missionary. So, this is pretty topical, including terrorist extremist groups and government corruption. So, Jake gets kicked out of boarding school and joins his family in Burkina Faso, West Africa, where his father is an ambassador. I have added it to my top-20-of-all-time bookshelf, which still doesn't have 20 books on it. I don't think it or its author is well-known - YET. This novel kept me up very late because I couldn't put it down.
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