Think Alex Rider meets Houdini and you've got Max Cassidy. This is the third book in this fantastic, fast and furious action-adventure series now re-packaged with a striking, current package.

Paul Adam studied law at Nottingham University and started his writing career as a journalist. He has written ten critically-acclaimed thrillers for a grown-up audience that have sold widely around the world and have been translated into several foreign languages. Reviews have called his adult books 'brilliantly imagined, fiercely authentic and wholly gripping'. Escape From Shadow Island is Paul's first book for children. He lives with his wife and children in Sheffield.