Excerpts from The Russian Spy

We all ducked; there was Sam, Jessie, and Rick, my dad, Tatyana and myself. The rest of the team Jim, Tom, Jack and Mike were on the chopper coming in to pick us up.

It landed, Mike and Jack jumped out to help us all aboard. Another chopper flew over spraying the area with gunfire. A hut caught on fire; workers were scrambling to put out the flames. Then the chopper circled, and hit our chopper, it exploded!

Jim and Tom were still in it! The rest of us were thrown back. We picked ourselves up.

“This calls for plan B!” Said my dad. “Head for the river!”