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Having trouble getting that teenage boy in your life to read for enjoyment?  Get him a copy of The Last Thing I Remember, by Andrew Klavan.  I couldn’t put it down, despite being several decades beyond the target audience - it’s that well done.

Charlie West wakes up strapped to a chair in a torture chamber and overhears someone ordering his death.  The last thing he remembers was a day filled with normal high school stuff - homework, karate practice, and a pretty girl writing her phone number on his hand.  Now he has no idea where he is, why he’s there, or why somebody wants to kill him.  But before he can figure out how to put his memory back together, his first order of business is getting out of this room alive.

Klavan understands that teenagers grapple with some pretty profound issues - who am I really?  what is the nature of good and evil?  who can I trust?  When writing for this age group an author might be tempted to deal superficially with these issues.  But Klavan digs in.  Without talking down to his audience, he makes the heady stuff accessible and never in such a way as to interfere with the heart-pounding plot.  order here