The Paladin Prophecy
Book One
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- 14,99 €
Description de l’éditeur
Will West is careful to live life under the radar. At his parents' insistence, he's made sure to get mediocre grades and to stay in the middle of the pack on his cross-country team. Then Will slips up, accidentally scoring off the charts on a nationwide exam, and he is recruited by an exclusive and mysterious prep school - the best school no one's ever heard of, with technology the likes of which no one's ever seen.
At the same time, coincidentally - or not so - Will realizes he's being followed by men in dark hats, driving black sedans who pose a terrifying threat to his family. What follows is a series of events and revelations that places Will smack in the middle of a millennia old struggle between titanic forces . . .
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Frost, adult author and Twin Peaks co-creator, makes his YA debut with this densely plotted thriller, first in a trilogy. After a lifetime of keeping a low profile, 15-year-old Will West is forced to live up to his true potential when strange forces take over his parents' minds and he seeks refuge at the elite Center for Integrated Learning, a prep school for the gifted. There, he's confronted by a demanding academic schedule, but encouraged to embrace his abilities as a superhumanly fast runner and a scholastic genius. He befriends his roommates, investigates his parents' odd behavior, is targeted by a malevolent secret society, and discovers the extent of his superhuman abilities. Disparate elements super-science, evil conspiracies, genetic engineering, an extensive cosmology featuring a war between good and evil give this adventure something of a split identity. Despite the feeling that Frost threw in everything but the kitchen sink, his story has serious entertainment value and pulls together satisfyingly by book's end, while laying the groundwork for the sequels. Ages 12 up.
