Publisher's Synopsis
In this riveting crime novel, fourteen-year-old Steven Steel Trapp sets off with his mom and their dog, Cairo, on a two-day Amtrak journey to compete in the National Science Challenge in Washington, D.C. Steel is both blessed and cursed with a remarkable photographic memory just one look, and whatever he sees is imprinted for keeps. Trying to be a Good Samaritan on the train, he unwittingly becomes embroiled in an ingenious plot that may have links to terrorists. Federal agents (first seen in Pearson s adult thriller "Cut and Run") track Steel and his newfound science geek accomplice, Kaileigh Augustine, as they attempt to put together the pieces of a complex puzzle. Using Steel s science contest invention and with the help of Cairo Steel and Kaileigh lead listeners on an action-packed adventure as they attempt to prevent the unimaginable, before it s too late.
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