Drone Racer by Andy Briggs

This book was a ‘Hot Contender’ for the Big Book Award 2020 shortlist.

About the Book:

12 year olds Carson, Trix and Eddie need parts for their racing drone, so they sneak into an Air Force scrapyard. There they discover a discarded drone that has a mind of its own – and a personality! Team Carson are soon winning races on the international circuit. But when the military takes notice, how will three kids protect their new friend?

Published by Scholastic

About the Author:

Andy is a screenwriter, graphic novelist, author and conservationist, writing on movie projects such as JUDGE DREDD and FREDDY VS JASON and FOREVERMAN. He has worked on TV projects for Syfy, Netflix, ITV and Amazon and is working extensively between the UK, US and China. Andy went on to work on Warner Bros.’ animated AQUAMAN while at the same time landing an eight-book deal with Oxford University Press for HERO.COM and VILLAIN.NET. His comics and graphic novels include MADISON DARK, RITUAL and DINOCORPS. He has rebooted the classic character TARZAN, with a series of contemporary books TARZAN: THE GREYSTOKE LEGACY, TARZAN: THE JUNGLE WARRIOR and TARZAN: THE SAVAGE LANDS. His latest series of middle grade novels, THE INVENTORY, is published by Scholastic. He wrote and Executively Produced the UK/Chinese movie LEGENDARY, starring Scott Adkins and Dolph Lungdren. In 2017 his movie CROWHURST was released, and SUPERVIZED and WAR WOLF entered production in 2017.