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Transcendent: Dark Swarm: Book 2: An edge-of-your-seat, high-octane adventure
By (Author) Patrick Gallagher
Hachette Children's Group
Orion Children's Books
10th June 2025
5th June 2025
United Kingdom
Children
Fiction
Paperback
304
Width 129mm, Height 198mm
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 seriesPatrick 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.