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William Wenton and the Luridium Thief (Book 1)
by Bobbie Peers
Age Range: 12+
Twelve-year-old William is in hiding with his family in Norway after the mysterious disappearance of his famous code-breaker grandfather eight years earlier in London. William has inherited his grandfather’s extraordinary talent for cracking codes and when he inadvertently takes part in the Impossible Puzzle competition, he puts himself in imminent danger. Someone is after him and they need William’s special skills to find the last remaining traces of a strange and powerful substance called luridium. Kidnapped and taken to the secretive Institute for Post-Human Research, William, with the help of Iscia, another student at the Institute, must use all his ingenuity and code-breaking skills to find out the secrets that the Institute is hiding.
This fast-paced exciting adventure is full of twists and turns. Norwegian author Bobbie Peers, has you hooked from the very first page in this first, of a thrilling fantasy series about William Wenton, translated by Tara Chace. Impossible to put down, Peers has created a cleverly conceived plot that is full of impossible puzzles to solve, sophisticated technology and a futuristic world full of cybernetic creatures and bloodthirsty robots as well as evil forces that William must overcome.
Other titles in the series reviewed on the website: William Wenton and the Secret Portal and William Wenton and the Lost City