Author: Geoffrey Trease

Publisher: Walker Books 1992

Pages: 222

Description:

The time is December 1989

The place is Romania

The event, revolution

The last leg of his school orchestra's concert tour brings eighteen-year-old Greg Byrne to Bucharest, Romania his mother's homeland where he hopes to make contract with a distant cousin, Nadia. But the city, as Greg quickly discovers is a dangerous place, held in the iron grip of the dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his dreaded Securitate. What Greg cannot know though is that he and Nadia are about to be involved in one of the greatest events in modern history!