a young boy is kidnapped from his front yard and held for ransom. Reports of sightings and false leads flood the police station, most of them prompted by people anxious to claim the reward offered for information about the crime. The newspapers criticize the authorities for not protecting the citizens and accuse the boy's father, who did not immediately pay the ransom, of negligence or even having a hand in the kidnapping. Meanwhile the kidnappers grow more impatient as the father and the police delay in meeting their demands, and threaten to take the child's life.we is got him is a vivid reconstruction of a true, ripped-from-the-headlines crime, but not from today's headlines. The abduction of Charley Ross took place in 1874, America's first recorded case of ransom kidnapping. Author Carrie Hagen tells a suspenseful tale of the race to save the kidnapped child, but she also brings Restoration-era Philadelphia to life, creating a setting both strange and familiar, much more modern and recognizable than we might expect. - Michelle (Sunset)
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