David Gilman launches new website
August 11, 2010
David Gilman, author of the DANGER ZONE series featuring the 'tremendously likeable' fifteen year-old hero Max Gordon, has launched a new website. The new site offers fans the opportunity to learn about all of David Gilman's book and screenwriting projects, to listen to the author reading from his work, to watch book trailers and to download desktop wallpapers, as well as inviting users to join in discussions.The DANGER ZONE series, which follows the adventures of plucky hero Max Gordon, is David Gilman's first foray into fiction and is published by Puffin in the UK, Delacorte (Random House) in the US, and in a further ten territories around the world. The series consists of three titles - THE DEVIL'S BREATH, ICE CLAW and BLOOD SUN - with each book seeing Max thrust into a different geographical setting.
The first in the series, THE DEVIL'S BREATH, won the prestigious Prix Polar Jeunesse in France in 2008, and was shortlisted for the Manchester Award and the Spellbinding Award, and picked for the government's recommended reading list for boys in the UK. In the US THE DEVIL'S BREATH was shortlisted for the Isinglass Teen Reads Award ahead of Delacorte's publication of ICE CLAW (October 2010) with BLOOD SUN to follow in 2011. Most recently, Gallimard Jeunesse (France) published BLOOD SUN in June 2010. David Gilman is currently writing standalone novels THE MONKEY IN ME and THE DEAD CHICKEN DIARIES.
View David Gilman's exciting new website here for more information on all of his projects and access to bonus material.
Praise for David Gilman and THE DEVIL'S BREATH:
'What Gilman does superlatively is heart-pounding action.'
--Amanda Craig, The Times
'Max is a tremendously likeable character. He's vulnerable and naive and not afraid to show it…At the same time, he's full of spunk and big of heart and understands that he has a lot to learn.'
--Jill Murphy, www.thebookbag.co.uk
'A big, solid blockbuster, packed with tough men, beautiful women and exotic locations…Max is an appealing hero, improbably tough and just about indestructible, but emotionally vulnerable enough to make him interesting.'
--Josh Lacey, Guardian