The bestselling co-author of Peter and the Starcatchers delivers a riveting new thriller. Fourteen-year-old Steven Steel Trapp is both blessed and cursed with a photographic memory. On his way to D.C. for a science competition, Steel becomes embroiled in an international plot that may have links to terrorists.

Author Biography

Ridley Pearson is the best-selling co-author of Peter and the Starcatchers and Peter and the Shadow Thieves. He is also the author of eighteen novels, including The Kingdom Keepers, Cut and Run, "The Middle of Nowhere," "The Pied Piper," "Beyond Recognition," "No Witnesses," "The First Victim," "Undercurrents," and "Parallel Lies." He was the first American to be awarded the Raymond Chandler/Fulbright Fellowship in Detective Fiction at Oxford University. In addition, he secretly wrote "The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer," which was a companion book to the ABC-TV production of Stephen King's "Rose Red."