The Testimony of Some Poor Little Rich Kids (Poor Little Rich Kids #1)
(By Andrew Anzur Clement)
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When his nosy parents start renovating the apartment’s bathroom, Luka decides to take a vacation from his first-world problems. Generally honked off about the post-pandemic world of 2022, he heads for Plovdiv, Bulgaria. His plans for a solitary drinking binge are upended by a chance meeting with group of well-connected Bulgarians. He’s invited to party with them.
He strikes up a casual-sex relationship with Iliana, a spoiled hipster from a powerful local family. She wants to use Luka to get revenge on the mobster ex-boyfriend who dumped her. But when a beat-up homeless child begs for their help, the plan takes an unexpected turn. Over Iliana’s objections, Luka decides to take the little girl in.
Only then do they learn that ten-year-old Svetlana is the property of the Bulgarian mafia. The child also has a secret that could bring down organized crime in Eastern Europe. The mob will stop at nothing to silence her -- and any who have helped her -- forever.
Suddenly, the entitled rich kids are running for their lives and forced to go off the grid: no smartphones, credit cards or luxury cars. They must now experience life as homeless migrants, learning survival skills from a child less than half their age. Along the way they gain another young travelling companion – Sasha, a Ukrainian refugee boy with secrets of his own.
On a mad dash through the Balkans, they must stay one step ahead of corrupt border police and a vengeful gangster, risking everything to get Svetlana and Sasha to safety in Slovenia. But their mission could be doomed to failure unless they learn the hardest lesson of all – the price and importance of caring for someone else.”
