Ransom

by Robert Kimmel Smith

It's an ordinary Thursday morning. Carter's limousine service picks up six children to take to Sloane School. They never arrive. A ransom note is found on the school grounds demanding $100,000 per child. It is signed by the Black Revolutionary Front. In the next thirty-six hours, with the lives of the children in the balance, comfortable suburbanites and radical members of the ghetto must come to terms.

299 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1971

About the author

Robert Kimmel Smith began dreaming of becoming a writer at the age of eight, when he spent three months in bed reading while recovering from rheumatic fever. He enrolled in Brooklyn College in 1947, and served in the U.S. Army, in Germany, from 1951-1953. In 1954 he married Claire Medney, his editor and literary agent. They have two children: Heidi (1962) and Roger (1967). After writing advertising copy from 1957 to 1969, Robert Kimmel Smith became a full-time writer in 1970.