From the author of former Waterstones Children's Book of the Month A Place Called Perfect comes a gripping eco-thriller with fantastical overtones as Grian seeks the truth about a billionaire tech genius who claims to be saving the world from ecological catastrophe.
Clever, quirky and hugely imaginative, discover the eagerly anticipated new eco-adventure series from the bestselling author of A Place Called Perfect.
Who would you trust to save the world... a boy or a billionaire? The earth has shifted on its axis and a mysterious dark mark has appeared on the sun - the whole world is in peril! But billionaire tech genius Howard Hansom has a plan...
When Grian's sister goes missing he's convinced she has run off to Hansom's new city to help save the world. But when Grian and his two friends Jeffrey and Shelli track her there they find that nothing is quite as it seems. Why is everything so secret? Where is the mysterious Area 13? What does Howard Hansom want with all the people he has enticed to live in his city? The days are getting darker but what's really happening to the sun?
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 9781474991094
Number of pages: 368
Weight: 309 g
Dimensions: 198 x 130 x 23 mm
[A] timely and exciting story - The I
Duggan has crafted a pacy thriller with contemporary resonance that is underpinned by brilliant worldbuilding - The Irish Times
The Light Thieves is a feast of fun, fiction, fantasy and fear. Opens with a bang and never lets up until the last page. I loved it. - Eoin Colfer, author of the Artemis Fowl series
Fizzing with ideas, The Light Thieves is a wildly imaginative adventure which reads like a blockbuster movie. - Christopher Edge, author of Escape Room
The Light Thieves
By Helena Duggan
Published by Usborn
The Light Thieves' by Helena Duggan is the first part of a fantastic new futuristic and eco-adventure series. Full of thought-provoking, dark at times...
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I absolutely adored this book from start to finish! It was such a fun, fast-paced story that pulled me straight out of the reading slump I was in. Thank you so much to the publishers for the early copy I received.... More
'The Light Thieves' by Helena Duggan is the beginning of a fantastic new technological, eco-adventure series. Highly unusual, imaginative, thought-provoking and exciting, this is an addictive read sure to be... More
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