Summary

Chapter Fifteen is titled “My Hurricane.” Ajoos oversaw the plans for Amanda and Nigel though he was spending his time with another team. Abdi remained with Amanda and Nigel. Ajoos was constantly on the phone, gathering information to decide where it was safe and where they might encounter fighting or other dangers. They spent the first couple of days nearby and Amanda wrote her weekly column for the “Red Deer Advocate,” a newspaper in her hometown in Canada. She had trouble getting the file to send and missed the deadline. She wrote about the unsafe conditions that plagued the area and it ran a couple of days later with a headline that read, “Nowhere is a person safe in Somalia.” Amanda notes that by the time that article was printed, she and Nigel had been kidnapped.

Chapter Sixteen is titled “Taken.” Amanda and...