Surprises

This novel has just started to get very interesting and addictive. In my last blog I mentioned Luke being kidnapped. The kidnapper was just an armature  and he was just fulfilling a bargain. His name was Eric, and he worked in a bank. It turns out that the fifty million dollars was transferred to him to hide in multiple different accounts. Someone found this out, and found out who he was, so they kidnapped his girlfriend and told him that they would trade her for Luke. But why Luke?  Luke was just an ordinary man, didn't have many friends, was an orphan. The only family Luke had was his step father Henry. The book later on reveals that the man who was given the fifty million was Henry, and he lead a terrorist organization known as the Night Road. Furthermore, the person who gave him the money was the Prince of England. But back to Luke, after being kidnapped Eric arrived at a house where a woman, on the phone with him, told him his girlfriend was. They entered the house and found her in a room on a metal bed, Eric let her out and as promised left Luke on the bed while being detained by chains. Luke overheard Eric using a voice modifier on the phone with Henry saying that the only way he could get Luke back is by giving them the fifty million dollars.  Luke was completely baffled, how would Henry get fifty million? he was clueless. Despite his terrorism, it seems Henry had a heart for Luke, he promised Luke's mother that he would take care of him before she died.

The chapters after Luke's kidnapping led to even more action and surprises, what would you say surprised you the most? and why is that?

Risking Your Life

For the past week I've been reading the book Trust Me by Jeff Abbott.
Although I have only made it to the third chapter, it seemed very intreaguing from the first page. It starts off with some sort of deal occuring at a local park. A man who is sitting at a park bench is feeding pigions, he is some sort of millionare who is plotting a terrorist attack. He pays a man 50 million to cause complete destruction.


         In chapter two we discover the main character Luke from Austin, Texas. He is in his twenties, is an orphan and he has recently been working on some reasearch for his step father Henry. The reasearch was to try to look for the future terrorists, Henry decided to make a fake blog on how he "wanted to make people pay" and reasearch the people who commented on it, there were 6,000 commenters. For the people who agreed with he fake blog, Luke attempted to determine weather or not these were just thoughts or people willing to do violent things to the world. Henry came to pick up the reasearch, he offered Luke a job to work with him, Luke agreed. Then Luke dropped him off at the airport, on his way back he was stuck up, a man came behind him and placed a gun on his back. This man new everything about Luke, he asked Luke to get in the car and drive with him or he would kill a family that was driving by in a minivan. Luke agreed and got in the car. this was where I finished reading.

What would you do if you were someone who had information about 6,000 violent possibly terrorists, would you get in your car with that man who knew your name and everything about you?

Myself, I think it would be wiser to wait for the family in the minivan to pass by, when they are gone I would try to take the gun from him. After all, he can only get the information through me. If he had that information he could do much more damage to a numerous amount of people. Better to sacrafice your life, one life, rather than risk the lives of cities.