What do you get when you mix Tintin, James Bond, and the Famous Five together? You get Richard Newsome’s Billionaire series.’Christchurch Kids Blog
A rollicking good yarn.’Weekend Herald
The final in Newsome’s acclaimed Billionaire seriesideal reading for 10-13 year olds.
With the strange plans for an even stranger machine in his possession, along with a coded message from a long-dead castaway that could be the key to unlocking its secrets, Gerald finds himself at the center of a web of mystery and danger.
Masked gunmen have taken over his luxury yacht. His parents have been kidnapped. And one of his closest friends has betrayed him.
His old enemy Sir Mason Green seems to be pulling all the strings.
Or is he?
Gerald, Ruby, Sam and Felicity take off on their final exciting adventure, from glaciers to jungles and the depths of the Pacific Ocean to an island teeming with the most bizarre creatures on earth.
Richard Newsome was born in New Zealand and now lives in Brisbane, Australia with his family. He won the inaugural Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing for The Billionaire’s Curse, the first book in The Billionaire seriesa novel that grew out of stories he told his children at bedtime.
