Give a Boy a Gun

Hostage situations look one way on television—a grizzled negotiator talks the gunman down and saves countless lives—and another in real life—scary and complicated and traumatizing for the people involved. YA books never hold their punches, so when they do hostage thrillers, they do them in a taut, horrifyingly real way. With the release of Kelley Armstrong’s hostage drama The Masked […]