Code Breaker
Ben Thomas
language
(North Country Press, July 23, 2010)
Every reader loves a secret. Why do hearts skip a beat and pulses trip when we read the word secret? Change it to read…secret codes and we get another bump. Or better yet…secret ciphers… that adds a dash of foreign intrigue. Sure enough now, it’s spies, secret agents and moles that use secret ciphers…saboteurs and double agents…!Code Breaker is a crash, bang, hoot of an adventure coming at you at warp speed wrapped around a tender teenage romance. Sam Ryder, a high school student, discovers a coded message in an abandoned cabin in the north Maine woods. He later learns that in 1944 an escaped WWII German POW died in the same cabin. What was the German doing there? Code Breaker is about Sam ‘s attempt to unravel the German secret cipher which he hopes will lead to a fabulous treasure before the bad guys can steal it…all the while trying to establish a relationship with the heroine, Brooke Corrigan, known as the Ice Lady, before German agents, also searching for the loot, can do her in. Then he must deal with why he left Baton Rouge, Louisiana, a jump ahead of the law. Set in Yarmouth...Freeport... Casco Castle... L.L. Bean... Casco Bay and the University of Maine’s Stone House at Wolfe’s Neck. What happens on the Bowdoin College campus? Ah! Therein lies the mystery...