Max, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gazzy and Angel are six extraordinary kids created by the crazed Uber Director in a twisted laboratory experiment that left them with the ability to fly. They are back for another wild adventure as they try to save the world ...and themselves. The Uber-Director sees the group of friends as his opportunity to become a billionaire: he seizes his chance to cash in that lucrative price tag by planning a worldwide auction with the children being offered to the highest bidder. But first his mutant army must track them down and capture them - which won't be easy. Meanwhile, in hiding from their predators, all six of them wake one evening to find they are being given an important mission - to save the world from global warming. Led by heroine Max, their task takes them in a fast-paced, high-speed chase across the world to the South Pole but, as ever, danger is never far away ...

Author Biography

James Patterson is one of the world's favourite storytellers with more than 120 million books in print in forty languages, making him one of the top-selling writers of all time. The winged characters in the Maximum Ride series were inspired by his bestselling adult novels When the Wind Blows (of which more than four million copies are in print and The Lake House. He is also the author of the top two detective series of the past decade, the Women's Murder Club and the Alex Cross novels, and he has written many other No. 1 bestsellers. Maximum Ride is his first young adult series. He lives in Florida.