Whether it's a Middle East oil crisis in the 1970s or the London Blitz
during WWII, world events have a way of breeding trouble on the home
front, too. That's how Toby Rinaldi, son of a U.N. Ambassador, wound up
kidnapped on his way to a California amusement park, and how Robby
Burnes, orphaned son of British nobility, wound up snatched on the snowy
streets of New York City. But as Robby's famous namesake taught us, the
best laid plans don't always work out as intended. Especially not when
you're a kidnapper in the hands of Gregory Mcdonald.
The comic genius behind the Fletch and Flynn books, Gregory Mcdonald
also penned the two brilliant kidnapping novels appearing here for the
first time in three decades - and the first time ever in a single
volume. Two precocious eight-year-old boys...two teams of kidnappers, in
way over their heads...two opportunities for mayhem, danger, and the
trenchant social satire no crime writer has ever delivered like
Mcdonald.