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The Clockwork Terror of Blackglass Island
A Felix Jones Adventure!
Felix Jones is the kind of kid who builds a signature-forging laser scanner before breakfast and treats every rule as a starting point rather than a final answer. He was supposed to spend a weekend looking at old clocks on a tidal island. He was told it would be educational.
He should have read the small print more carefully.
When Felix’s Year 7 class arrives at the Museum of Time and Tides on fog-locked Blackglass Island, something immediately goes wrong. The curator, Archibald Rook, doesn’t blink. Ever. The classmates who were arguing and throwing scotch eggs twenty minutes ago are now breathing in perfect synchronization. And beneath the volcanic rock, something is ticking — a deep, rhythmic pulse that Felix can feel in the back of his skull and that keeps trying to sand away all his best ideas.
Rook has been planning this visit for a very long time. Blackglass Island isn’t a museum. It’s a machine — a lighthouse built around a shard of alien crystal that amplifies a mind-control signal capable of rewriting human thought into clockwork obedience. All he needs is enough brains to run it at full power. Thirty-two Year 7 students will do nicely.
Felix and his best friend William are the only ones the signal can’t reach. Which means it’s just the two of them — a boy who builds things from broken parts and a boy who knows the statistical probability of everything they’re about to try — against a curator who wants to silence the entire world.
Armed with a Victorian signal cannon, a jar of brass nuts and bolts, and one very loud, very inconvenient brain, Felix is going to have to make a lot of noise.
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The second adventure in the Felix Jones series!
New to the series? Start with Book One: The Weird Map in Mr. Glimm’s Skull.