Richard Phillips

Tells the dramatic life-and-death tale of the Vermont native who, in April of 2008, was held captive on a tiny lifeboat off Somalia's anarchic, gun-plagued shores.

"Mr. Book with No Story wants no pictures, stories, happy endings, words, laughs, tears, or thrills between his covers. None. Zero. Zilch. He is a story-free zone, he declares, and will only tell us what he's not going to tell us. But Mr. Book's pages have other ideas, and he can't control them no matter how hard he tries. Little by little, they coax a story out of the reluctant storyteller, but you have to help. . ."--Book jacket flap.

After a night out with friends, a Korean-American teenager accepts a late night ride home from a young firefighter only to be abducted and forced into prostitution by a human and drug trafficking ring. Renamed 'Eden' by her kidnappers, she soon learns the only way to survive is to earn the trust of those in charge. But as Eden's influence within the operation grows, she must decide just how much of herself she's willing to lose to survive.