Daniel X: Watch the skies by James Patterson
Doubleday, 2009.
(Age early secondary) Recommended. This is the second in the
series and those followers of the
first one will want to read this. Daniel, a teenage alien hunter,
continues the search for the TV
tyrant
who is determined to destroy the planet. This is a
fast moving action packed thriller which has an ever twisting series
of technological events, akin to a television series. Daniel and his
family plot to overcome the
villain in an original and fascinating way. Daniel says 'I began by
doing what any highly disciplined
military
commander would do on the eve of battle - I ate a four course meal'
p180.Sounds like an adolescent to me!
The novel obviously leads to the next book so
the end is not as satisfying as it might be. But the followers will be
waiting for the next in the series.
Sue Nosworthy