This book offers a diverse array of personalities, backgrounds and temperaments as three boys sneak out of their fancy boarding school for an otherwise "unsanctioned" camping trip. But why is having four boys there so important? Are they actually going to show up for the tennis tournament? And why does Colin, the one on a scholarship, have more to lose than the others? There is certainly more than meets the eye and the suspicious ax in the trunk seems to point us towards danger.