Airman / Eoin Colfer / 412 pages

I am amazed at the quality of writing one experiences while reading Eoin Colfer.  His books are fantastic adventure stories filled with quotable quotes, hair-raising exploits, and thought-provoking situations.  Airman is a sure to please best bet!  Young Connor Broekhart is imprisoned by an evil pretender to the throne of Great Salty.  He had witnessed the assassination of the King and his most loyal advisor and could not pull the trigger to end the life of the assassin.  He is dressed as a soldier and tattooed in a scheme to convince his father, the king's friend, that Connor is dead and the person imprisoned is an evil man.  Connor is unaware of this scheme and wonders that neither his family nor his friend, Isabella, heir to the throne have wondered at his whereabouts and his innocence.  Connor's knowledge, courage, and determination provide with the means to escape the death sentence the prison is meant to be.