Running

Fifteen-year-old, Scott Anderson has a secret so big he daren’t share it even with his best friends; Jameson, Travers and Mary. He and his dad are American. If you’re American, you don’t talk about it. If you don’t talk about that, you don’t talk about any of the other secrets that haunt your life – that your dad’s really a computer scientist and people are searching for him.

When Bill Anderson disappears, Scott is determined to find him. He has already lost his mother. She disappeared in the California earthquake, when ninety percent of the world’s computer scientists were killed; a tragedy for which America is held responsible. But there’s little for Scott to go on, a scrap of paper left in a printer and a poster pinned to the wall.

Now someone’s looking for Scott, too. Is it the mysterious Frenchman, who pretends to be a radiation expert; or Sean Terry of the American Secret Service, who believes the United States innocent of the crimes levelled again it; or Hilary Stone, the prettiest girl in Scott’s class, who also claims to work for the American Secret Service.

Or is it someone else entirely?