Shroom Raider
This is the Domestic Service, broadcasting to all free peoples, Above and Below.
New London can take it…
For fourteen bitter years the Vertical War has raged between the stalactite nation of New London and their dreaded enemies, the stormtroopers of Neufundland, below. And for fourteen years Icarus Earthstar has run wild with his street urchin friends, until the day they nearly kill a policeman. And then Icarus discovers that having a General for a father can’t always get you out of jail for free…
Icarus must choose between jail, and joining the Shroom Raiders – elite soldiers who drop down and carry the war to the Neufundland legions. In a world without flight the Shroom Raiders fall from above, on fungee cords a mile long, to thwart their enemies’ plans to invade. For Neufundland is greater, and stronger, and all it desires is to bridge the gap to the stalactite above, and bring the free people of New London under its fascist yoke…
Icarus is still running – from the brutal Sergeant Gus, from an Army family who stand for everything he has kicked against, and from the tragedies of his past. But in a deadly vertical world where tyranny and freedom clash… a world haunted by the ghosts of the past and shadowed by the terrible weapons of the future… where every truth Icarus holds dear about family, friends and foes can shatter like a landslide… and where the only way out is up or down, he can’t keep running forever…
Shroom Raider is a Blitzpunk adventure of vertical savagery, hidden identity, and the bitter struggle for mastery of the worlds above and below. For middle grade readers aged 9-12.
‘Shroom Raider’ is the only Middle Grade Fiction book you should be reading right now!
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