A fourteen year old boy Jack Williams was brought up from a broken home after he found out his father had another family beside theirs, spilled it out to his mother Sonya. Sonya demanded for a divorce and asked her husband Williams to leave . Williams had no option but to leave and return to his new family. This broke Jack's heart after promising he would be back after sometime. Jack grew up only with his mother, Sonya, and his younger brother, Jace. The promise of his father always put a smile on his face each time he was to go into a sad mode. He grew up playing with Jace and always setting traps for animals, tricking was his thing,even though he was smart he would joke around with most times before he would turn serious. He went to Dana high school in his town called Dana. He was always pleased to top the class. He even went ahead to make the whole class mock his teacher. Jack had sad moments atimes, he would gaze at the door each time it was weekend believing his father would walk up to the door one day. The wait was getting too long for him. He exercised patience right from when he was six years ,but not till when he was fourteen, he fully decided to go in search for his father. He would go into the woods and to the bush thinking his father could be hiding. He began a search which led him to experiences and led out to his love for Adventures and discovering new things. His love for Adventure threw him into situations where he was once kidnapped and worst of all led him to the evil forest which his brother Jace did follow him and things changed.

Captors and Captives is a book that depicts the war fought in ages past brought to an African context on a village called Ibuku. The main character Cypher the only child of his mother plays the role of an instrumentalist later turned into a brave Warrior after circumstances which were on ground. The village Ibuku is a great Village known for its wealth and beauty it posseses a lot of natural resources. It's singing attribute is not left out. One of the most famous qualities known for the people of Ibuku is it great singing talent with Cypher leading the band with his friends Akin and Dimeji. Soon their fortune is being turned to misfortune when group of White strangers from the White country sends their greeting and request to help them in trading and to control the leadership of the village. Their request is being rejected after they were treated ill-mannered at their arrival at Ibuku village. Captain Robert,the leader of the whitemen who paid homage to Ibuku was being kicked out and thrown out of the village by the angry villagers for coming as strangers to take over the leadership of the village. Sooner, Robert sends spies to the village to ease their revenge. Wakili ,a villager who had lived at the bank of the river almost crossing over to the neighboring village had gone for his regular farming on a fateful day and had spotted the spies and made effort to run but was caught and threatened. He eventually welcomes them to his house. The whitemen had played a little trick on him and gave him some money and also promised him more ,only if he could tell them secrets about the village, which he eventually did and led his village to captivity for long