It is June 1948 and Francis Tucket and his family are journeying westward to celebrate his fourteenth birthday. But en route they are attacked by a band of Indians and Francis is kidnapped - his only protection is his new rifle. Francis travels further and further from his family with his captors, living for the moment, fighting for survival and growing up a little too fast. Then he hooks up with Jason Grimes: a mysterious tough guy who knows the ways of the Indians and seems to Francis to be a kindred spirit. Francis feels he finally has a friend to help him through his ordeal - together they will survive. But Jason Grimes has a personal vendetta and a score to settle, and Francis soon realises that it's every man for himself . . .
- ISBN10 0340754133
- ISBN13 9780340754139
- Publish Date 15 July 1999 (first published 1 February 1994)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 April 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Hachette Children's Group
- Imprint Hodder Children's Books
- Edition 2nd edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 304
- Language English