num_pages: 387
description: John Wells enters new territory as he goes underground in East Africa to track four kidnapped Americans and the Somali bandits who snatched them in the tough thoughtful electrifying new novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author.Four friends recent college graduates travel to Kenya to work at a giant refugee camp for Somalis. Two men two women each with their own reasons for being there. But after twelve weeks theyre ready for a break and pile into a Land Cruiser for an adventure.They get more than they bargained for. Bandits hijack them. They wake up in a hut hooded bound no food or water. Hostages. As a personal favor John Wells is asked to try to find them but he does so reluctantly. East Africa isnt his usual playing field. And when he arrives he finds that the truth behind the kidnappings is far more complex than he imagined.The clock is ticking. The White House is edging closer to an invasion of Somalia. Wells has a unique ability to go undercover and to make things happen but if he cant find the hostages soon theyll be dead  and the U.S. may be in a war it never should have begun. 
language: English
title: The Night Ranger
publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons