At the school the morning began well enough. The children were cooperative and eager to help in the preparation for the Inspector. Without warning their peace was shattered by the appearance at the window of a grotesquely masked figure. It was the start of a forty-eight hour ordeal of terror for Sally Jones and her small band of pupils, kidnapped by a gang of sinister and sadistic men asking a cool one million dollars' ransom for their victims. Sally's first concern was to protect and comfort the children but as their dreadful nightmare continued she became determined to escape and then, together with the children, to destroy...