Schmuggler im Netz

Internet Detectives #3

by Michael Coleman

Virtual Reality ist wirklich eine coole Sache, findet Josh, als die Segel der Renn-Jacht sich im Sturm blähen und die Wellen sich vor ihm haushoch auftürmen. Sein Puls rast, dabei sitzt er doch ganz gemütlich im Trockenen vor dem Computer. Aber richtig aufregend wird es erst, als Josh, Tamsyn und Rob dann wirklich eine 'Sea-mail' vom Atlantik erhalten. Von Brad, einem Segler, der an Bord der großen Regatta von New York nach Portsmouth teilnimmt. Ist schon ein netter Kerl, dieser Brad. Wenn da nicht ein 5-Millionen-Dollar-Bild aus einem Museum in New York gestohlen worden wäre. Und die Spuren führen zum Hafen.. Sollte Brad in den Raub verwickelt sein?

Genres: Mystery, Contemporary, Childrens

Hardcover

First published November 10, 1997

About the author

Coleman was born in Forest Gate, a suburb in east London. Not long after he was born, his family moved a few miles east to Barking. At the time of his arrival, the area was just starting to recover from the damage it had received during World War II. He lived in a house on Bevan Avenue, named after Aneurin Bevan the architect of the National Health Service. He lived in that estate for 20 years. The area helped develop Coleman's love of sport due to the oblong shaped lanes of grass leading up the estate, which could be used as mini-stadiums. He pretended to play at various sporting events of the time, e.g. the Melbourne Olympics of 1956, the soccer Cup Final at Wembley Stadium, and the games at Lords Cricket ground. He still has medals he won for being school champion in the 100m sprint and the long jump. As said by Coleman himself "My information series Foul Football tries to convey some of the magic I felt about the game of soccer by relating the weird and wonderful history of the game and the personalities it has seen over the years. On the fiction side, my series about a junior soccer team called Angels FC tries to bring out the humour and sheer fun that you’ll find at the heart of the game when it’s played by youngsters who don’t even know how to spell the word cynicism." Coleman had his first children’s book published when he was 46 years of age. He has also said: "I didn't [want to become a writer] at first. I used to teach computer science at a university and my first book was a boring one about computers. I livened it up by putting a few jokes in. At the end I thought I'd try writing a few more things, but this time forgetting about the computers and concentrating on the jokes. After lots of failures I realised that youngsters enjoy jokes more than adults and started writing for them. Eighty books later, I'm still doing it...I write both fact and fiction. The Foul Football series are favourite fact books, simply because they're about football. On the fiction side, I'm just finishing a trilogy called The Bearkingdom. They're dark and scary, quite different to anything I've written before."

Reviews

[Chiara · Rating 4 out of 5]

Somebody has broken into a ship in the middle of the night! The internet detectives try to work out who. Mitch tries to ask a person from the harbour but can't get any answers about it. They say that it was Bruno the dog but it actually is not. Then they find that there is an expensive piece of art that was stolen and if the retriever brings it back they will get 5 000 000 dollars. Mitch finds the painting but the woman who owns the art gallery says that it is a copy of it. They take pictures of the GO GAMEZONE and find that it is on the ship. They also find out that somebody is waiting to collect it at Portsmouth Harbour.

[Husk Eisborn · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lo disfrute, comencé a leerlo sin ninguna expectativa y al final me entretuvo y de cierta manera recordé las series de espías y de detectives que me gustaban en mi infancia. Es una lectura muy ligera.

[Rogerio · Rating 2 out of 5]

Who remembers the ASCII codes? Nice to see computers and the Internet from a distance in time..