![]() ![]() The reality is that she's a city girl, shoeless and without food or clean water, and there are dangers all around: parasites and bacteria in the streams, disease-carrying mosquitoes, wild monkeys, hyenas, and even lions. Using what she knows about the geography, wildlife and plants of the region, she manages to get away from her captors and hide in the wilderness. After negotiations for her return don't go well, Lucy decides to escape. She can't even go to the market in the capitol city to shop with a friend! When she manages to escape her driver and protection detail, she is kidnapped and held for ransom by drug dealers in a remote area. ![]() She's read her books on wildlife so many times she practically has them memorized. Lucy is 13, lonely, bored with official tours and state dinners, and irritated beyond belief at all of the rules that she has to follow in the closely guarded American compound. Lucy's mother is the very busy American ambassador to Ethiopia. ![]()
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