Escape from Shadow Island (19 page)

PAUL ADAM
is a writer of adult thrillers. This is his first book for children. He lives in Sheffield, England, with his wife and two sons.

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MAX CASSIDY
: Escape from Shadow Island. Copyright © 2009 by Paul Adam. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Adam, Paul, date
[Escape from Shadow Island]
Max Cassidy: Escape from Shadow Island / Paul Adam.—1st American ed.

p.   cm.

“First published in Great Britain under the title Escape from Shadow Island by Corgi Books, 2009”—T.p. verso.

Summary: British fourteen-year-old Max Cassidy calls on his skills and training as a professional escape artist when he attempts to clear his mother of murdering his father, who disappeared two years earlier in the Central American country of Santo Domingo.

ISBN 978-0-06-186323-3 (trade bdg.)

[1. Mystery and detective stories. 2. Escape artists—Fiction. 3. Adventure and adventurers—Fiction. 4. Missing persons—Fiction. 5. Central America—Fiction.] I. Title. II. Title: Escape from Shadow Island.

PZ7.A1887Max   2010        2009012031
[Fic]—dc22                           CIP

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EPub Edition © January 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-199839-3

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