Blue Voyage
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- $8.99
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
An intricately crafted mystery set in the contemporary Middle East.
Zan is a politician’s daughter and an adrenaline junkie. Whether she’s rock climbing or shoplifting, she loves to live on the edge. But she gets more of a rush than she bargained for on a forced mother–daughter bonding trip to Turkey, where she finds herself in the crosshairs of an antiquities smuggling ring. These criminals believe that Zan can lead them to an ancient treasure that’s both priceless and cursed. Until she does so, she and her family are in grave danger. Zan’s quest to save the treasure—and the lives of people she cares about—leads her from the sparkling Mediterranean, to the bustle of Istanbul's Grand Bazaar, to the eerie and crumbling caves of Cappadocia. But it seems that nowhere is safe, and there’s only so high she can climb before everything comes tumbling down.
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Zan and her mother flee Massachusetts for Turkey after Zan's father, a gubernatorial candidate, is engulfed by a sex scandal, and her aunt loses her husband in a suspicious accident. To comfort Aunt Jackie and escape the scandal at home, Zan and her mother join her on a Mediterranean cruise and later help out by working at her boutique hotel. Things turn scary when Zan meets a girl named Sage, who plants antiquities on her; after Zan is caught with them by police, she is pulled into a vast smuggling conspiracy. Renn (Latitude Zero) spins a complicated narrative, crowded with details that can seem extraneous (giving Zan vitiligo, for example, or a shoplifting episode, in order to make the police's accusations of thievery more believable). With all the twists, as well as the effort required to make these two girls seem like reasonable targets for an elaborate Turkish smuggling ring, the plot can be more jumbled than suspenseful. Travel seekers, however, will enjoy the tour of some of Turkey's most famous sites. Ages 12 up.
