Andrew Klavan shines with his latest young adult novel The Long Way Home. On several occasions, I had to hold myself back while reading this taut, thrilling mystery, and not skip ahead to see what happens next. The Long Way Home is a breathtaking page-turner. If you buy it for your kids and don’t read it yourself, you will definitely miss out. This second in the Homelander series picks up pretty much where The Last Thing I Remember left off, but you need not have read Last Thing to enjoy The Long Way Home. Charlie West continues to wrestle with the year long blank spot in his memory, a period during which he was tried and convicted of murdering his best friend, escaped from prison, and got sucked into an Islamist terrorist network. Now Charlie must avoid both police and terrorists to get back home and clear his name. Andrew Klavan’s latest grabs you at the opening, with a life or death knife fight in a public library’s bathroom, and never lets go. With this book, Andrew goes head to head with video games for kids’, and probably some adults’, attention and comes out on top. Charlie’s matter-of-fact patriotism, fear

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