Tunnel Vision
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- $8.99
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
Pushed into the witness protection program for a crime she didn’t know she saw, Liza is racing for survival.
On her way home one evening, Liza has to force her way through a group of men in a train underpass. She doesn’t think anything of it, but when her mom is shot dead moments later, Liza’s world turns upside down. Even worse, Liza was really the target. Only hours after her mother’s death, Liza is nearly killed again and she and her dad are placed in the witness protection program. Leaving everything she’s ever known behind, Liza and her dad pick up and move, never staying in one place for long. It’s too big of a risk—and Liza’s worst fear is realized when she gets recognized. The would-be killer is still on their trail, so all Liza and her dad can do is keep running. Unsure whom to trust and where to go, they’re just trying to stay alive….
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Shaw (One of the Survivors) offers a tense story of life on the run, which opens with an act of violence, when 16-year-old Liza's mother is shot and killed in front of her. After an attempt is made on Liza's life soon after, it becomes evident that she was the target of both attacks. Liza and her father enter a witness protection program, trying to escape from the gang that's hot on their trail for reasons they don't understand. Readers are kept in the dark, too Shaw offers little in the way of hints that might explain why Liza is being targeted. As father and daughter surrender their identities and race around the country, abandoning work, school, and family, Shaw provides a window into the stress they are under (on numerous occasions Liza mistakes passersby for the man who's after her), and how their shock over their tumultuous new circumstances affects their ability to grieve their loss. The open ending is realistically uncertain, a lack of closure that further cements readers' connection to Liza's feelings of futility, helplessness, and confusion. Ages 12 up.
