Escape From New Orleans

Last October, Amanda and her brother Peter of Greenwich, Connecticut were trapped in New York City after some "terrorists" blew up several buildings in the city, including the theater where they were waiting to be picked up after a show. They escaped with the help of some new friends who formed The Big Apple Posse to figure out how to leave a city where there are no longer any busses, subways, taxis, working phones or internet service. With the help of one of their new friends and posse members, Thibodeaux Botrain (a teenage boy who lives in Harlem with his Auntie Tina), they found proof that the so-called terrorists were actually a gang of South African diamond thieves. It is now the end of February and Amanda and Peter are living in New Jersey with a former FBI agent, hiding until they can testify in the "terrorist trial of the century" in June. One afternoon, Amanda sees one of the "terrorists" hiding in the trees, watching her play soccer. She grabs Peter and travels into the City to seek help from Mr. Benedicte Trudeau, a Harlem lawyer who represents Thibodeaux's Auntie Tina. Mr. Botrain arranges for Amanda, Peter and Thibodeaux to travel to New Orleans to hide with members of Thibodeaux's family. They arrive in New Orleans and soon find out that Amanda, Peter and Thibodeaux are supposed to live in an apartment on New Orleans' funky Magazine Street, watched over only by Thibodeaux's beautiful seventeen-year-old cousin, Solange (an aspiring ballet dancer and singer), and one of Mr. Trudeau's sons, Michael, a twenty-three-old intern at his brother's hip-hop label. The posse has arrived in New Orleans just in time for Mardi Gras and they are quickly immersed in a world of music, dance, parades, voodoo and romance. New Orleans is a cultural stew where no one "stands out," but are they safe? Can anyone successfully hide in a world of Facebook, Google, Youtube and facial recognition software? And can The Posse actually escape a gang of terroristic thieves who will do anything to prevent them from testifying?