Orphan Monster Spy

Description

Shortlisted for the Costa Children’s Book Award 2018.

A teenage spy. A Nazi boarding school. The performance of a lifetime.

Sarah has played many roles. Dutiful daughter. Talented gymnast. Persecuted Jew. Lost orphan. But now she faces her most challenging role of all. Now she must become the very thing she hates. For the only way she can survive as a spy at a boarding school for the cream of Nazi society is to become a monster like them. A monster who can destroy them.

Discover the girl who can beat Bond and Bourne at their own game, in this utterly addictive thriller from ajaw-dropping new talent.

They think she is just a little girl. But she is the weapon they never saw coming… with a mission to destroy them all.

Reviews

“This clever novel explores how unacceptable attitudes can take hold, which makes it timely as well as tense.” –The Sunday Times

“A thought-provoking and incredibly page-turning debut.” –The Irish Times

Author Biography

Matt Killeen was born in Birmingham, in the UK, back when trousers were wide and everything was brown. Early instruction in his craft included being told that a drawing of a Cylon exploding isn’t writing and copying-out your mother’s payslip isn’t an essay “about my family.” Several alternative careers beckoned, some involving laser guns and guitars, before he finally returned to words and attempted to make a living as an advertising copywriter and largely ignored music and sports journalist. He fulfilled a childhood ambition and became a writer for the world’s best-loved toy company in 2010, as it wasn’t possible to be an X-wing pilot. Married to his Nuyorican soul mate, he is parent to both an unfeasibly clever teenager and a toddler who is challenging his father’s anti-establishment credentials by repeatedly writing on the walls. He accidently moved to the countryside in 2016.

Orphan Monster Spy is his first novel.