CODE OF HONOR

CODE OF HONOR by Alan Gratz

Back to Alan Gratz! My husband and son are tearing through his books. They finish one and into my pile it goes with a "You've got to read this!"

Code of Honor is not your standard Gratz book. Typically Gratz will take a historical event and write a fictional story around it. In Code of Honor, the Smith family is rocked to the core when their son Dairus, a West Point graduate and U.S. Army Ranger, is accused of being a terrorist. Told from the view of younger high school brother, Kamran, this family is ripped to shreds in the media and by friends when Dairus starts showing up in al-Qaeda training exercise and completed mission hit videos. The family is quickly separated and "detained" while the U.S. Government figures out what is going on. Only one person believes in Dairus's innocence, and that's Kamran. But what can he do about it?

I have really loved the Gratz books. Honestly though, this one took me a little while to get into, but once I did I was hooked. I revolt inside about the idea that our government barges into people's lives and takes their freedoms away (although we have seen it happen in the past- Japanese and WWII) . Then at the same time I find myself internally arguing about safety for fellow people. This book is one that you must wrestle through your beliefs on tough issues.