Escape from Shadow Island - Max Cassidy 1 Book

Think Alex Rider meets Houdini and you've got "Escape From Shadow Island". The first book in a fantastic fast and furious action-adventure series. Max is an ordinary north London schoolboy by day but at night he performs sell-out public shows as an escapologist. His father was also a world-renowned escapologist who disappeared two years earlier. His body was never found but Max's mother Helen was convicted of murdering her husband by a Santo Domingan court. One evening after his show Max receives a visit from a mysterious man - Lopez-Vega tells Max that his mother's trial was rigged and he has something to give him. When Max goes to his hotel later he finds Lopez-Vega dead shot through the head a piece of paper hidden under his wig with the numbers 83521113 on it. What do the numbers mean? Are they a code or maybe the combination for a lock or a safe? Could they be the key to unlocking the mystery of his father's disappearance and getting his mother out of prison?

Escape from Shadow Island - Max Cassidy 1 : Paperback : Penguin Random House Children's UK : 9780552563031 : : 07 Apr 2011 : His mother is now serving a life sentence for her husband's murder. Max's mission to learn the truth about his family takes him on an thrilling journey, from London to the horrors of the terrifying Shadow Island in central America. Escapology is dangerous but not nearly as dangerous as real life .