PATRICK GALLAGHER
Author of TRANSCENDENT, an edge-of-your seat, high octane adventure for readers 9+
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TRANSCENDENT: DARK SWARM
JOIN THE TEAM. SAVE THE WORLD. Join twin geniuses Jacob and Kira on an out-of-this-world mission to protect the planet in the second book in the Transcendent series.
Jacob and Kira have been launched into space by a top-secret agency called Transcendent. Their mission? Finish work on an invention with the power to clean up the Earth and stop climate change for good.
But they soon lose all communication with mission control and discover that a mysterious creature is closing in on them.
Meanwhile, an evil billionaire is determined to get rid of Transcendent so he can unleash a terrifying, mind-bending technology on the planet.
With two disasters looming, how will Jacob and Kira save the day when everything is at stake?
Two kids, one top-secret agency and an epic mission to save the world.
Praise for Book 1:
'A fun, action-packed thriller with a brother-sister duo that I really loved.' - David Owen, author of the Alex Neptune series
TRANSCENDENT
JOIN THE TEAM. SAVE THE WORLD. Twin geniuses Jacob and Kira are recruited to take part in a high-tech mission to protect the planet … but will their dreams of adventure come true, or is the threat too great to handle?
Jacob and Kira live in the heart of Mbale, Uganda with their conservationist mother and navigate life as unsuspecting geniuses; Kira with hopes to explore outside the hot terrains of Uganda, and conspiracy theorist Jacob, whose fear often holds him back from the answers he so desperately wants to uncover.
But when they discover that someone has been watching their every move in the hopes to enlist them in a top-secret agency called Transcendent, their lives are turned upside down.
Soon the twins are hurtled from the luscious landscapes of Mbale, to the sleek streets of London, where – alongside other selected protegees – they must undertake three rigorous trials, each more difficult than the last, to be accepted into Transcendent. If they are successful, they will be launched into space to complete a high-stakes mission to fight the greatest threat the world has ever seen.
Only, the twins soon realise they have more to contend with than they bargained for … is there a more sinister reason they have been chosen?
Two kids, one top-secret agency and an epic mission to save the world.
‘A fun, action-packed thriller with a brother-sister duo that I really loved.’ – David Owen, author of the Alex Neptune series
ABOUT PATRICK
Patrick Gallagher is a primary school teacher from South London with roots in Goa in India and Donegal in Ireland. He studied English and American Literature with Creative Writing in both Kent and Maynooth and is a keen artist and violinist in his spare time. Like lots of Goans of that generation, Patrick’s mother was born and raised in Uganda and the time he himself has spent there inspired the spectacular backdrop to Transcendent. Jacob and Kira’s story has been years in the making. It draws not only on Patrick’s experience of dual heritage but every science-fiction and adventure story he devoured as a child, every Doctor Who episode and Spider-Man cartoon, every comic or short story he scribbled on scrap paper, every daydream on long car journeys. To Patrick’s class and every other child reading Transcendent, he would like to say this: if you love writing stories, keep going. You never know. You might just never stop.
