Max Cassidy: New Thriller Novel Mixes Adventure, Mystery and a World-Class Escape Artist

Tuesday, 2/16/2010

Bestselling thriller author Paul Adam was just fourteen years old when he first conceived character Max Cassidy…

Max Cassidy is the world’s foremost and youngest escape artist. Chained, handcuffed, locked in an airtight water tank, there’s nothing he can’t get himself out of. He learned the art from his father—a man who just two years ago was murdered, and Max’s mother went to jail for the crime.
 
Now a mysterious man has shown up backstage after one of Max’s shows, telling Max that not only is his mother innocent, but his father is still alive. He can provide only one clue: a slip of paper with eight digits written on it. It is this clue that will lead Max from his home in London to the exotic and deadly Central American country of Santo Domingo and the impenetrable fortress on the sinister Isla de Sombra.

Max Cassidy can escape from anything—but given the chance to finally know the truth about what has torn his family apart, escape from Shadow Island is the last thing on his mind.
 
“Max is one of those characters that has been lurking in some hidden corner of my brain for many years,” Adam says of his main character. “I first read about the legendary escapologist Houdini when I was in school at junior school and found his tricks and stunts fascinating… He’s the kind of kid I would have liked to have been when I was his age – only I couldn’t pick locks or get out of handcuffs or swim a hundred meters underwater.”
 
MAX CASSIDY: ESCAPE FROM SHADOW ISLAND, which is on sale now, is the first in a trilogy of thriller novels from Paul Adam.

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