The Cruelty is a nominee for the 2018 Edgar Award for best Young Adult book. 'his debut novel is relentlessly paced, full of global sets, slick action.with a grim, ass-kicking antihero.' - Booklist A grim, fast- paced tale.' - Publishers Weekly

but Gwen still hasn’t untangled all his lies from the truth. But even armed with a new passport and identity, the danger is far from over. This debut novel is relentlessly paced, full of global sets, slick action. Seventeen-year-old gymnast Gwendolyn Bloom doesn't learn that her father is a genuine spy?and not merely an overworked State Department employee?until after he is kidnapped by international gangsters, and the CIA makes little attempt to recover him. Gwen faces ever greater danger from the men who hunt her in this action-packed, high-stakes YA sequel to The Cruelty, by Scott Bergstrom. The Cruelty Author: Scott Bergstrom About this Series Gwendolyn Bloom must take on an alias, outwit spies, and maneuver past international crime lords in order to find her missing father, in this action-packed young adult series. Bergstrom reverses this plot in his violent, well-crafted first novel. 'Liam Neeson's 2008 film Taken concerned a spy who engages in mass mayhem while attempting to recover his kidnapped daughter. This suspensful debut from Scott Bergstrom features a strong female character and nonstop, cinematic action. Traveling under a new identity, she uncovers a disturbing truth: to bring her father back alive, she must become every bit as cruel as the men holding him captive. When Gwendolyn Bloom's father vanishes, she sets off on a journey she never bargained for. When he goes missing, she's plunged into a world of assassins, spies, and criminal masterminds. THE CRUELTY by Scott Bergstrom (Feiwel & Friends 18. Gwendolyn's father kept his life a secret from her. The Cruelty is an action-packed young adult thriller (optioned for film by Jerry Bruckheimer) about a girl who must train as an assassin to deal with the gangsters who have kidnapped her father.

The cruelty by scott bergstrom