内容（「BOOK」データベースより）
アメリカ政財界の大物たちの息子ばかりを集めた全寮制学校が、過激な武装テロ・グループに占拠された。人質となった数十名の生徒の親たちがいずれも政府に影響力を持つため、ホワイトハウスはかつてないほど対応に苦慮する。だが、生徒のひとり、ビリー・テッパーは持ち前の才知と勇気を武器に、大胆かつ奇抜なテロリスト掃討作戦を開始した。スリルとサスペンスに富む話題の映画の原作。
From Publishers Weekly
Kennedy's (The Maskado Lesson) third novel turns on an interesting premise: suppose a terrorist, a cross between Abu Nidal and Yasser Arafat, took over an American boys school in Italy, forcing the politically and industrially powerful fathers to pressure the U.S. government into acceding to his demands. Hoping to achieve U.S. impotence in the Middle East and the Mediterranean, the ambitious and charismatic Sharif wants, at the same time, to elevate himself to an exalted role among his fellow Arabs. A Delta force team decides it cannot storm the fortress-like school without killing most of their men and the hostages in the process. Amid a group of fairly familiar characters, Kennedy has introduced an interestingly drawn 15-year-old, Billy Tepper, a prankster with a swift and wide-ranging intellect, able, like TV's MacGyver, to transform everyday items into functional tools of another sort. With his lieutenant, Gamel, in charge of the hostage situation, Sharif seems bound to win. But Gamel is out of control. He kills one of the boys and dumps his body outside, Billy begins to sabotage the terrorists' equipment, mistakenly believing a rescue is imminent, and Sharif's plan starts to unravel. Fast paced, highly readable, if somewhat predictable, Kennedy's scenario will entertain thriller buffs.
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