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BLOOD SUN
Fiction (Youth Thriller) 404 pages
Penguin Group (UK) - June 2009
A boy dies a terrible death while carrying information that might explain how Max Gordon’s scientist mother died three years ago. Did his father lie about her death and betray Max’s trust?
Max’s frightening journey begins on Dartmoor when he is pursued by the ruthless mercenary, Riga – and ends in a battle for survival in the Central American jungle. The rainforest is being destroyed, but does this devastation hide more sinister secrets? Facing high-speed boat attacks by drug smugglers, Max finds sanctuary with the sly Orsino Flint – is this rare-plant thief friend or foe? Threatened by man-eating snakes, deadly caimans, poisonous plants and flesh-stripping piranhas, Max faces death at every turn. Aided by two Mayan teenagers, he is drawn into helping a tribe of children fighting for their lives against ancient sacrificial rituals. Does the truth of his mother’s death lie with this tribe and the terrifying events taking place in the underground chambers of a hidden temple? As Max faces this final test, the relentless Riga closes in. -
ICE CLAW
Fiction (Youth Thriller) 440 pages
Penguin Group (UK) - June 2008
A thundering rumble echoes round the mountain peaks of the Pyrenees as a deadly avalanche speeds towards the oblivious competitors in an X-treme sports challenge. Max Gordon's race to win has just become a race to survive. But Max has been betrayed.
Sayid, Max's best friend, is injured and missing. Max is accused of murder and the evidence seems conclusive - the hunt for Max Gordon is on. In a life-or-death struggle, a mysterious monk passes on a vital clue, which plunges Max into the heart of an ancient secret, foretelling of a cataclysmic event that will kill thousands and destroy the entire ecological balance of Europe. -
THE DEVIL'S BREATH
Fiction (Youth Thriller) 377 pages
Penguin Group (UK) - June 2007
Nominated for the Carnegie Medal 2008
Shortlisted for the Manchester Book Award 2008
Shortlisted for the Cumbria School Library Service's Spellbinding Award 2008
Nominated for the 2010-2011 Isinglass Teen Reads Award in New Hampshire
He doesn't need Alex Rider's girly gadgets. He's much more fanciable than Andy McNab's Boy Soldier. His adventures will take you to places even Wilbur Smith hadn't thought of. Soon after escaping an assassin that bursts from the shadows to try and kill him in the dark windswept grounds of his school in Dartmoor, Max Gordon discovers that his explorer father has also gone missing. Max is determined to find him whatever dangers may lay in his path. A secret clue, that his father has left, leads Max to the inhospitable wilderness of Namibia and the discovery of a potential massive ecological disaster masterminded by the very powerful and completely ruthless businessman, Shaka Chang. Whoever is behind Max's fathers disappearance is determined to get rid of Max too. For good.
THE DEVIL'S BREATH is the first incredible book, in a blockbuster new adventure series for boys and girls of 9+ , with more plot twists and death defying action scenes than a Bond film. A world of stampeding buffalo, lethal scorpions, ancient tribes and prophecies awaits you...
Biography
Award-winning screenwriter, who has written for successful long-running series like DALZIEL AND PASCOE and A TOUCH OF FROST. The DANGER ZONE series is his first foray into fiction. Featuring plucky hero Max Gordon, each book has a different geographical setting.
THE DEVIL’S BREATH won the prestigious French award, Le Prix Polar Jeunesse, was shortlisted for the Manchester Book Award and the Spellbinding Award, nominated for the Carnegie Medal, and picked for the UK government’s recommended reading list for boys. The book has also been shortlisted for the 2010–2011 Isinglass Teen Read Award in New Hampshire, USA.
ICE CLAW takes Max from X-treme sports challenges in the high peaks of the Pyrenees to the unravelling of a Basque monk’s mysterious secret.
In BLOOD SUN, we follow Max on a perilous adventure into the endangered rainforests of Central America.
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