Discusses physical and emotional abuse and neglect, including how to tell the difference between discipline and abuse and why some parents are abusive.

After fifteen-year-old Max Gordon's environmentalist father goes missing while working in Namibia, Max finds he has become the target of a would-be assassin at his school in England, and decides he must find his father in Africa before they both are killed.

Explains why it is necessary to be careful around strangers and offers advice on ways to stay safe.