Final Crossing
By Sean Rodman
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Will and Big O are brothers and best friends—and small-time crooks. Ever since their dad went to prison, they’ve been stealing to survive.
On a ferry ride from the big city, they hatch a plan for one more score: they’ll break into the cars on the ferry during the trip and scrape together enough to get out of town. And maybe out of the criminal life forever. But everything goes south when they discover one car that contains more than they bargained for: a young kidnap victim. Pursued by a crazed professional criminal, the brothers must now survive the night and a final crossing into a new life.
Sean Rodman
Sean Rodman is the author of several books for young people. When not working on his own books, Sean is the executive director of the Story Studio, a charity that inspires, educates and empowers youth to be great storytellers. He lives in Victoria, British Columbia.
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Final Crossing - Sean Rodman
Final Crossing
Sean Rodman
ORCA BOOK PUBLISHERS
Copyright © 2014 Sean Rodman
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without permission in writing from the publisher.
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Rodman, Sean, 1972-, author
Final crossing / Sean Rodman.
(Orca soundings)
Issued in print and electronic formats.
ISBN 978-1-4598-0558-3 (bound).--ISBN 978-1-4598-0552-1 (pbk.).-
ISBN 978-1-4598-0553-8 (pdf).--ISBN 978-1-4598-0554-5 (epub)
I. Title. II. Series: Orca soundings
PS8635.O355F56 2014 jC813’.6 C2013-906736-1
C2013-906737-X
First published in the United States, 2014
Library of Congress Control Number: 2013954151
Summary: Will and Big O are brothers, on the run and trying to stay together. Breaking into cars for small change, they stumble across a kidnap victim and end up in a fight for their lives.
Orca Book Publishers gratefully acknowledges the support for its publishing programs provided by the following agencies: the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund and the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Province of British Columbia through the BC Arts Council and the Book Publishing Tax Credit.
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For my sister,
who started this journey for me
Contents
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter One
Like most of my brother’s plans, this one is stupid and illegal.
And I’m going through with it. Like I always do.
Big O squints through the rainspattered windshield of our old Ford pickup. Cars are lining up to be fed into the belly of a big ferry that looms in the evening twilight over the dock.
What I’m saying is, it’s a long ride from here to Seattle. And we could use a little entertainment.
Big O shoves the pickup into gear and nudges it forward.
You want entertainment, you could read a newspaper,
I say.
Big O shoots me a quick look, like he doesn’t appreciate me being unreasonable.
I shrug. What? You like the comics, right?
You’re supposed to be the smart one. So stay with me here and do the math,
he continues. There’s what, like, four hundred cars on this ferry. We’ve got two hours. We wait until everybody goes upstairs, leaves their cars behind. Then we take a little walk. Figure out who’s left us a present in their car.
As he speaks, Big O carefully steers us up the loading ramp into the ferry. Following the directions of a guy in a blue uniform with an orange flashlight, he pulls right up to the suv in front of us.
So nobody’s going to notice us taking their stuff?
I say.
Big O kills the engine. I’ll stand lookout. You’re awesome at boosting windows and doors.
There he goes, trying to butter me up. Look, it’s a simple plan. And it doesn’t break any of your rules.
Being the brains of our operation, I had set a couple of ground rules for our partnership. One, nobody gets hurt. That’s how Dad went down. Two, no drugs. Duh. And three, never steal anything so big that it’ll attract attention. I unbuckle my seat belt so I can swivel on the vinyl seat to face him. My older brother, Big O, is chubby. Not fat but baby-faced, people call it. Although he tends to smack them if they say it to his face. That layer of fat hides some pretty solid muscle. Me, I’m the opposite. Thin. Messy brown hair. Like a ferret with glasses. But we both have the same sneaky blue eyes. A little shifty, like our dad.
Okay, it’s not the worst plan ever,
I say. It is, in fact, a terrible plan. But I don’t want to hurt his feelings, so I need to break this gently. There’s a lot of things I like about it.
O nods enthusiastically, his Oakland A’s ballcap bobbing up and down.
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