Max Cassidy Book 1
Escape from Shadow Island
Escapology is dangerous, but not nearly as dangerous as real life...
Max Cassidy is a teenage escapologist, so good he’s nicknamed the Half-Pint Houdini. His father disappeared two years ago and his body has never been found. His mother is now serving a twenty-year sentence for her husband’s murder. Max’s mission: to learn the truth about what really happened and bring his family back together.
One evening, after one of his London escapology shows, Max is visited by a mysterious man from Santo Domingo who tells him that his father is alive and that his mother’s trial was rigged.
When Max goes to meet the man a second time he finds him dead, shot through the head, but discovers a piece of paper with a strange sequence of numbers written on it.
Max realises the numbers could be his only chance to unlock the mystery of his father’s disappearance. Desperate to find out what really happened to him, and to seek justice for his mother, he goes to Santo Domingo where the trail leads to the sinister fortress and former prison, the Isla de Sombra – Shadow Island.
What has been going on in the island’s grim cells? Max must try to find out, then use all his escapology skills to outwit his enemies and survive.
