Nine Days
By Fred Hiatt
(Delacorte Books for Young Readers, Hardcover, 9780385742733, 256pp.)
Publication Date: April 9, 2013
Categories: Social Issues - Friendship, School & Education, Mysteries, Espionage, & Detective Stories
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A fast-paced contemporary thriller in the vein of James Patterson and Anthony Horowitz set against the bustling backdrop of Hong Kong, Vietnam, and the border of China. This heart-pounding adventure takes place as two teens, an American teenage boy and his friend, a Chinese girl from his Washington, DC-area high school, must find her father who has been kidnapped—and they only have nine days. Although the characters in the novel are fictionalized, they are based on a real Chinese family who were part of the Chinese Democracy Movement and inspired this story.
FRED HIATT is the editorial page editor of The Washington Post. He writes editorials for the newspaper as well as a biweekly column.
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