Synopses & Reviews
In this riveting thriller, 14-year-old Steven Steel Trapp sets off with his mom and their dog, Cairo, on a 2-day Amtrak journey to compete in the National Science Competition in Washington, D.C. Steel is both blessed and cursed with a remarkable photographic memory just one look and whatever he sees is imprinted for keeps. Trying to be a good Samaritan on the train, he instead becomes embroiled in an ingenious, international plot of kidnapping and bribery that may have links to terrorists. Federal agents (first seen in Pearson's adult thriller, Cut and Run) track Steel and his new-found science geek accomplice, Kaileigh Augustine, as they attempt to put together the pieces of a complex puzzle. Using Steel's science contest invention and with the help of Cairo Steel and Kaileigh lead readers on an action-packed chase adventure as they attempt to prevent the unimaginable, before it's too late.
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"The pages turn with fast-paced action, revealing the interlocking mysteries piece by piece." Chris Shanley-Dillman, author of Finding My Light and The Black Pond
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"The author's fondness for cliches...and his habit of repeating information already given, keep this out of the top drawer, but it's a brisk scramble nonetheless...." Kirkus Reviews
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"[Steel Trapp is] a solid entry in the kid spy genre, and those who are looking for adventure will be satisfied with the quick plotting, suspense, and eventual fight scene." Voice of Youth Advocates
About the Author
Ridley Pearson is the bestselling author of 14 novels, including
The Middle of Nowhere, The Pied Piper, and Beyond Recognition. He was the first American to be awarded the Raymond Chandler/Fulbright Fellowship in Detective Fiction at Oxford University. In addition, he secretly wrote The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer, which was a companion book to the ABC-TV production of Stephen King's Rose Red.