THE MAZEMASTER
The Amazing Child Narrator is back for the final tale of breathtaking adventure and nail-biting risks in the spirit of the great storytellers.
Melbourne, 1960. One Saturday morning, in the middle of busy Richmond, the Blayney kid’s brand new brother is kidnapped right out of his pram, setting off a train of events that couldn’t possibly have been anticipated. First, the Blayney family, who are a very mysterious crowd with dubious connections all over town, decide to take matters into their own hands. Then, the kid himself decides to conduct his own enquiries, knowing that this is probably a very bad idea, and that he might be next.
In the guise of The Mazemaster (one of his many superhero alter egos), he mobilises his friends, some of whom come from the dodgiest of families, and swings into action, collecting evidence all over the place, getting involved in a shooting, another kidnapping, an unwelcome hospitalisation, the theft of a train, being chased down into the maze of drains and tunnels beneath Richmond - territory he regards as his own - in spite of dire warnings from his grandfather (a very scary bloke in his own right), and a man from ASIO, finally getting into the stickiest mess you could possibly imagine.
A brilliantly daring, touching and downright funny novel about loss, discovery and the kid in all of us. The Mazemaster is a crazy ride.