Coin Heist mixes the teenage emotion of the Breakfast Club with the heist elements of Ocean’s Eleven to create a fun filled adventure of a read.
Synopsis
The last place you’d expect to find a team of criminals is at a prestigious Philadelphia prep school. But on a class trip to the U.S. Mint – which prints a million new coins every 30 minutes – an overlooked security flaw becomes far too tempting for a small group of students to ignore.
United by dire circumstances, these unlikely allies – the slacker, the nerd, the athlete, and the “perfect” student – band together to attempt the impossible: rob the U.S. Mint. The diverse crew is forced to confront their true beliefs about each other and themselves as they do the wrong thing for the right reasons.
Elisa Ludwig’s Coin Heist is a fun, suspenseful, and compelling thriller, told from the revolving perspectives of four teens, each with their own motive for committing a crime that could change all of their lives for the better — if they can pull it off.
Book Review: ‘Coin Heist’ by Elisa Ludwig
Coin Heist introduces us to four characters that are unlikely to be friends or even acquaintances under normal circumstances. Unfortunately for Alice, Dakota, Benny, and Jason there’s nothing normal about their situation. The headmaster has spent all the schools money on his day trading scheme and now it’s up to the students of Haverford Friends prep school to save it.
The novel is told from four different perspectives (Alice, Dakota, Benny, and Jason) as they plot to save the school by robbing the U.S. Mint. Each character has their own reason for wanting to save the school as well as their own skill set to help pull off the heist. The voices of the characters are distinctive, so even though the story is told from four separate perspectives, it never gets confusing. The characters are also diverse representing a realistic group of teens.
Coin Heist plays with some recognizable conventions of heist novels but adds in a few twists of its own. It also addresses the moral dilemma at the heart of the story and handles the ethical dilemma the characters face in a way most YA novels don’t.
Filled with tech details and U.S. Mint lore the Coin Heist is a fast paced, fun summer read not to be missed.
Coin Heist is available now at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Indiebound.
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