Max Gordon. Wanted for murder.Two thousand freezing metres high in the mountain peaks, Max Gordon is grappling with death.His race to win an X-treme sports challenge has become a race to survive. Max witnesses the last moments of a mysterious Basque monk, who screams a cryptic clue before plummeting to his death. The clue is a prophecy that fortells of a cataclysmic ecological event which will kill millions across Europe.Now Max is trapped in the darkness of a dead man's secret and the hunt is on. How will Max prove his innocence when nobody will trust him – and he can trust no one?
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AtmosphereWhimsical
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Plot intensityEventful
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Written forYoung adultMiddle grade
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