Close on the heels of Charlie Higson's highly successful Young Bond series comes another adrenalin-pumping adventure story that reads like a Robert Ludlum thriller tailor-made for teenagers.
It kicks off explosively with our young hero, 15-year-old Max Gordon, being stalked by a stealthy assassin who's about to send him packing into the afterworld. Needless to say, Gordon survives the assault, but with his life threatened at least once in each chapter of this fast-paced action novel, it isn't fun being Gordon, that's for sure.
Gordon makes James Bond look like a 40-kilo weakling: He's an expert at white-water kayaking, mountain-biking and snowboarding. So when his father goes missing in Namibia, Gordon races off to find him, dodging school authorities, a couple of hired killers and a suspicious school professor called Peterson, who seems to be liaising with the enemy to track him down.