Chase

Linwood Barclay

ISBN 10: 0143198777 / ISBN 13: 9780143198772

Published by Puffin / Penguin Random House For Young Readers, 2018

About this Item

First edition thus (preceded by the 2017 hardcover release) first printing of a fine softcover with no jacket as issued. Featuring 12 year old Jeff, and his genetically engineered spy dog Chipper who escaped from a mysterious and sinister organization called "The Institute" Young adult fiction. Winner of the 2018 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Juvenile Crime Novel. This copy is signed by the author on the half title page. Seller Inventory # 945

Bibliographic Details

Title: Chase

Publisher: Puffin / Penguin Random House For Young Readers

Publication Date: 2018

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Signed: Signed by Author

Edition: 1st Edition.

About this title

Synopsis:

The Incredible Journey meets Gordon Korman's On the Run in this exciting middle-grade thriller.

Chipper is a very special dog. He's part of a multi-million dollar experiment at a secret organization known only as The Institute. The Institute has been experimenting with dogs, melding them with state-of-the-art computer technology. But there's a problem with Chipper. His natural dog instincts often overrule his computer side. No matter what he's doing, if he sees a squirrel or a mouse, he'll drop everything to chase it. So The Institute has decided it's time to pull the plug on Chipper. Chipper manages a daring escape with a destination in mind, but a team from the Institute, led by the cold-hearted Daggert, is hot on his heels.
    
Twelve-year-old Jeff Conroy lives with his aunt and helps run her business, a lakeside cabin-rental operation that caters to fishermen. Jeff desperately misses his parents, who were killed in a plane crash a year earlier. But at least he's made one friend: Emily, whose ex-cop father owns a similar business down the lake. And Emily, a computer whiz, has the coolest fort ever: a trackless, abandoned train station in the middle of the forest.
    
After eluding his would-be captors, Chipper boards a bus and ends up in the country, only to be hit by a truck that Jeff is driving (underage). Jeff takes Chipper to the train station to nurse him back to health, and it's here that he and Emily discover a computer port in Chipper's collar, and once Emily hooks her laptop to it, she and Jeff discovers that Chipper's arrival is not random. He has been looking for Jeff -- and now so is Daggert ...

About the Author:

LINWOOD BARCLAY is the New York Times and #1 international bestselling author of fourteen critically acclaimed novels, including Broken Promise, No Safe House, A Tap on the Window, Trust Your Eyes, which has been optioned for film, Never Look Away, which has been optioned for television, and No Time for Goodbye.