KING'S RANSOM

Title:                     King’s Ransom

Author:                  ED McBAIN

Publisher:              Oxford University Press

Literary genre:       Novel                                                                                                                   

When my English teacher said to us that we had to read a book, I looked for one in my home and I found this one, a book that other teacher gave me in an English course, and I still had not been able to read it.

The plot is about a child kidnapped by two small-time crooks. They want to kidnap the King’s son, a rich person who is planning a big and expensive business deal. But they take the wrong boy, the son of King’s chauffeur. The chauffeur hasn’t money to pay the ransom and Mr. King doesn’t want to pay it because if he does it, he will not have money to close the business deal and he will lose his work.

At the end, the wife of one of the crooks, alerts the police and they are able to rescue the boy without paying anything.

This is a good book for whom likes  novels about crimes and mysteries, and show us how there are rich person, who prefer not to lose the position rther than to save the life of other people, in this case, a boy. This kind of situation takes sometimes that these rich people lose their best friends and relatives. How would you have acted if you were Mr. King?