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Code Red: Wildfire
Chris Ryan
Fiction (Series)
Ages 12 and up
Random House UK, 2006, 1-862-30166-2
  Ben Tracey is delighted that he is going to be able to spend his February half term in Australia instead of in cold wet England. His mother is in Adelaide participating in a conference and he hopes to spend seven blissful days in the sun on a beach somewhere. When he arrives he finds that his mother is unable to meet him straight away and he ends up being taken up in a micro light plane by a young American girl called Kelly. Kelly isn’t too keen having to “baby-sit” a boy several years her junior but she does it as a favor to Ben’s mother.
  Meanwhile, somewhere in Adelaide a car is stolen and leaflets in the car are set on fire by the young men who stole the car. Wisps of scorched paper are carried on the hot dry wind and before anyone really knows what has hit them fires are breaking out all over Adelaide. Strange and inexplicable wind storms feed the fires and soon huge walls of flame are raging across the city, destroying and killing as they go.
  Ben and Kelly desperately try to find their parents in the chaos of the fire and in the process, as they follow a false lead as to Kelly’s father’s whereabouts, they discover that they may be something far more sinister going on, something with may threaten not just Adelaide but which may threaten the safety of the whole planet.
  Armchair adventurers are sure to find this gripping and well written book highly satisfying. Plenty of action, a touch of conspiracy theory, and a sprinkling of heroes and villains makes this the perfect book to read when escaping ones humdrum life is the goal.
 

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