Challenge

The Challenge by Tom Hoyle, bestselling author of Thirteen, is a gripping adventure thriller about an online game gone wrong, perfect for fans of Michael Grant.Ben has been grieving for his best friend, Will, who suddenly disappeared from their tiny village a year ago. But when twins Sam and Jack begin at the school, things start to look up. Cool, good-looking and popular, they draw Ben into their world and introduce him to The Challenge. What first appears to be a fun internet game quickly turns sinister as Ben's tasks become wilder and more dangerous, starting to raise questions over Will's disappearance. But once you're involved with The Challenge, it's very hard to get out . . .

When it comes to menace, The Challenge blows virtually every other book I've read this year out of the water.

Tom Hoyle is the pseudonym of a secondary school headmaster. He is the author of Thirteen, Spiders, Survivor and The Challenge. Whoever Tom really is, he wants his books to be 'something that even the most reluctant readers in my English class would want to pick up.'