Ten Days to Zero (Ben Maddox Story) - Softcover

Bernard Ashley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1846169577 ISBN 13: 9781846169571

Publisher: Orchard Books, 2008

Synopsis

When journalist Ben Maddox is thrust full-throttle into an investigation for Zephon TV, he worries that he's in over his head. But as he digs deeper, he realises that what's really important is being prepared to fight for what you believe in, and if that means risking his life, then that's exactly what he will have to do...

About this title

About the Author:

Bernard Ashley is one of the top writers for teenagers today. Drawing on his experience as a headteacher in a South London school he writes exciting, hard-hitting stories for the young adult reader plus picture book and younger fiction texts. Bernard's first novel, The Trouble with Donovan Croft won the 'Other Award', an alternative to the Carnegie Award and since then Bernard has written extensively both for television and the children's book market. His adaptation of his own novel Dodgem won the Royal Television Society Award for the Best Children's Entertainment Programme. Bernard has written a number of successful novels for Orchard Books. Tiger Without Teeth was chosen as the Guardian's Children's Book of the Week, Little Soldier about the gang-run estates of inner London was shortlisted for both the Carnegie and Guardian Fiction Award and Revenge House a hard-hitting crime thriller are all typical of Bernard's highly charged, gritty approach. Bernard Ashley lives in South East London only a street or so from where he was born. During his time as a teacher and headteacher he worked in Kent, Hertfordshire, Newham and Greenwich. Visit Bernard Ashley at: www.bashley.com

Review:

This zip-along thriller set amid politics, deportation, kidnapping and investigative journalism has a very here-and-now feel. -- The Bookseller 20050101 Ten Days to Zero is a brilliantly constructed thriller ... Hopping through various formats, the reader is drawn into a narrative web that is utterly absorbing. There is a filmic quality that will appeal to less committed readers, but Ashley doesn't pander to them. -- The Guardian 20050501

About this edition

• Publisher: Orchard Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1846169577
• ISBN 13: 9781846169571
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 247