Will, a High school sophomore and an unlikely hero, flies with Pastor Ron and three other students into a poverty stricken Central American country to rebuild a schoolhouse. While awaiting their pilot for the return trip home, rebel gunmen burst into the local cantina and murder the proprietor before their eyes. Rebels have initiated a revolution in Costa Verdes, and the five missionaries and their pilot are caught in the middle. The local rebel thug, Mendoza, imprisons the six Americans, and the Bush pilot, Palmer Dunn, insists the rebels will murderer them all. After the first missionary is executed, Dunn escapes, and Will believes the ex-Marine has abandoned them to their doom.
Andrew Klavan spins another nonstop, action-packed tale laced with life principles for life’s extremities. Readers will feel the fear, taste the sweat and grime and agonize with Will over exhaustion and decisions that will determine his future and shape his character. If We Survive artfully examines issues of life and death, prayer and faith, and most forcefully courage; do what is right despite your fear. Will found that fearlessness is not only attainable—but contagious.
Age Range: 11 and up
Genre: Action Adventure/Mystery
Thomas Nelson 2012
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