Even when the guns are turned their direction, he’s just as sure that it’s all a horrible mistake, and if he can only talk to someone, things can be straightened out. Even when the rebels start killing people, Jim is sure they’re fighting for justice. The most intriguing might be Jim Nolan, a 16-year-old intellectual who has read the biography and op-ed articles of the country’s rebel leader…and who believes everything he’s read. What makes this something special is the characters in it. So now these church kids, along with an unexpected helper, are on the run, barely staying ahead of these murderous bandits. The rebels have taken over the government and are executing anyone for any reason, and they don’t want to let any American witnesses get out of the country alive. What happens next is a not-so unusual chase-type adventure. They’ve finished the work and are waiting in the cantina for the bus to take them back home when the room is suddenly filled with rebel soldiers and the pot-bellied, smiling waiter, who had been joking with them only moments before, is now on the floor, shot dead by the rebel leader. Will Peterson is a 16-year-old visiting a small Central American village with his church’s mission team, there to help rebuild the local cinder-block school. I just wish I could tell you that all of us made it out alive.” “We came to Costa Verdes to build a wall.
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