SuitabookStrategy and responsibility
Jamie applies a strategy for predicting an opponent’s actions to the attempt to recover Phoebe.
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Barry Jonsberg - Author
A tense family-crisis story built around a teenager’s attempt to apply mathematical strategy to a kidnapping. It offers questions about prediction, responsibility and whether clever reasoning can control a frightening, high-stakes situation.
'Game Theory has brought me to this point and I must follow where it leads. Even though this is not a game.' Jamie is a sixteen-year-old maths whiz. Summerlee, his older sister, is in the grip of a wild phase. Tensions at home run high. When Summerlee wins a 7.5-million-dollar lottery, she cuts all ties with her family. But money can cause trouble - big trouble. And when their younger sister Phoebe is kidnapped for a ransom, the family faces a crisis almost too painful to bear. Jamie thinks he can use game theory - the strategy of predicting an opponent's actions - to get Phoebe back. But can he outfox the kidnapper? Or is he putting lives at risk?
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Sign in for personalised guidanceA tense family-crisis story built around a teenager’s attempt to apply mathematical strategy to a kidnapping. It offers questions about prediction, responsibility and whether clever reasoning can control a frightening, high-stakes situation.
Jamie applies a strategy for predicting an opponent’s actions to the attempt to recover Phoebe.
Summerlee’s lottery win is followed by her cutting ties with the family, while tensions at home are already high.
Phoebe is kidnapped for ransom, and Jamie tries to predict the kidnapper’s actions.
Expect distressing material involving Phoebe’s kidnapping and ransom, alongside family strain and trouble connected with sudden wealth.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: the current material supports only a cautious reading; another book-specific source is still needed.
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