Koryta, Michael.
THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD
Boston : Little, Brown, 2014
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ISBN 0316122556

While cliff jumping at the quarry one day, 13-year old Jace witnesses a brutal murder. Now he is the next target of the killers, the merciless Blackwell Brothers. To buy the police some time to find the Blackwells before they find Jace, he is given a new identity and hidden in a Montana wilderness skills program for troubled teenagers. Even Ethan Serbin, the survival specialist in charge of the wilderness program, doesn’t know which of the seven boys in his group is the one in hiding. But when the Blackwell Brothers attack Ethan’s wife and set fire to his house, Jace knows in his gut that those who wish him dead are coming for him next. From the very first sentence, this novel will have you on the edge of your seat. With a riveting plot, believable characters, and a setting so real that you can almost feel the heat from the campfire and hear the snap of twigs as the bad guys sneak up behind you, this is a page turner in every sense of the word! If you are a fan of survival-themed TV shows like Discovery’s Dude, You’re Screwed, stories of life in the Witness Security Program, or survival thrillers like Becca Fitzpatrick’s Black Ice, this is the book for you!    (Booktalk by Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Award Committee)