Codebreaker
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
This original, interactive thriller from debut author Jay Martel follows a brilliant teenage girl as she races across D.C. to decode the clues her father left behind, which may just be the key to saving the country from a devastating tragedy.
Mia Hayes has peaceful plans for the summer—find a part-time job at a coffee shop and work on her college applications. Those plans are shattered one night when government agents arrive unannounced at her home seeking something they believe her father has taken. When the dust settles, her mother is dead and her father is gone, a fugitive on the run.
Three weeks later, and still reeling from her father’s betrayal, Mia spends her seventeenth birthday at a protest in the heart of D.C., where she meets Logan, a rebellious and charming hacker. Just as she’s enjoying her first happy moment since the night her world exploded, a voicemail from her father arrives to upend everything she believed about her family, her past, and what really happened that night three weeks ago. Even more, the voicemail hides another encoded message inside which, once Mia solves it, sets her and Logan off on a mission from her sleepy suburb straight into the heart of the federal government.
With the same agents now hot on their trail, Mia and Logan must navigate their way through American history’s most iconic sites and uncover its most well-hidden secrets to reveal the truth about her family and stop a deadly attack.
In this non-stop thrill ride, the reader has the chance to test their own codebreaking skills alongside Mia, lending an exciting interactive element to this page-turning thriller packed with action, romance, and life-changing revelations.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
When 17-year-old Mia Hayes finds her parents in their living room with a bald man in a black suit, she doesn't anticipate that the encounter will end with her mother dead and her father missing. Now on her own, the teen struggles to understand what happened and how her father is involved. Three weeks later, attending a protest in D.C., she meets cute, funny Logan, 18. The two plan a date for that night, but Mia is abducted shortly after Logan leaves the protest. Upon arriving at an undisclosed location, Mia is interrogated by a woman called Mary Surratt, who questions Mia about something her father is purported to have stolen. Though Mary releases her, Mia knows that the only way to uncover the truth about her father is to follow a series of clues he left behind. Clever codes, puzzles, and ciphers form the base of this intricately designed codebreaker mystery that's enlivened by page-turning action and Mia and Logan's sharp banter and magnetic chemistry. A beginning author's note instructs readers on how to participate in the codebreaking and investigating alongside Mia, injecting a playful interactive element to Martel's propulsive debut novel. Mia has olive skin. Ages 13–up.
