The Last Thing I Remember
- Fiction
- Publisher: Thomas Nelson
- Published: 2010
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Publisher's Description
The Bourne Identity meets 24 in New York Times bestseller Andrew Klavan's The Homelanders Series. High schooler Charlie West just woke up in a nightmare. He's strapped to a chair. He's covered in blood and bruises. He hurts all over. And a strange voice outside the door just ordered his death. Charlie West is a good kid. The last thing he can remember, he was a normal high-school student doing normal things--working on his homework, practicing karate, daydreaming of becoming an air force pilot, writing a pretty girl's number on his hand. How long ago was that? And more to the point... How is he going to get out of this room alive? By calling on his deepest reserves of strength and focus, Charlie manages a desperate escape... only to find out that this nightmare isn't ending. There's a whole year of his life that he can't remember--a year in which he was convicted of murdering his best friend and working with terrorists. Now, with the police hunting him and a band of killers on his trail, he's got to find the answers to some of the deepest questions there are: Who am I? What do I stand for? And how am I going to stay alive? If you love stories with relentless twists and turns, relatable protagonists with strong moral convictions, fugitive thrillers, and the complications of amnesia, you won't want to miss The Homelanders Series. The Homelanders Series includes The Last Thing I Remember, The Long Way Home, The Truth of the Matter, and The Final Hour.
Endorsements (1)
“Charlie is a squeaky-clean high-schooler who gets good grades, dreams about joining the Air Force, and loves practicing his karate—and it’s this last skill that comes in especially handy when he wakes up tied to a chair next to a tableau of torture instruments. In an attempt to understand how he landed in such dire straits, he flashes back to the last thing he remembers: a seemingly typical day at school. So begins the fantastic first half of this post-9/11 thriller in which each bit of recovered memory directly informs how Charlie deals with his mysterious captors. The excitement plateaus once Charlie escapes and realizes that he’s wanted by more than just a band of terrorists, but the chase scenes, gunfire, and fistfights never let up. The rah-rah patriotism may put off some readers, particularly given Charlie’s apparent unwillingness to moderate his black-and-white views. On the other hand, this is just the first book in the Homelanders series, so there is still plenty of time for Charlie to develop shades of gray. Grades 8-11.”
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