This is John MFX Knight’s debut novel. It is book 1 in a series of 5.
Set in the cold war about a girl who’s parents are Dutch diplomats, stationed in Jamaica.
The diplomats have a daughter called Adriana who presents as security risk, so if then home schooled, drafted, and turned into a signals officer.
Adriana struggles with the hyper-discipline of home school with a crazed mother and runs away from home, only to run into more trouble, in India, Nepal, Tibet and Australia.