The Doomsday Virus

FYI: Fiction With Stacks of Facts

by Steve Barlow, Steve Skidmore, Harriet Buckley (Illustrator)

In two hours, a powerful virus will destroy the Internet and every computer on the planet! The world’s only hope is a 14-year-old boy named Tim Corder. Unfortunately, he’s also the world’s most dangerous computer hacker.

72 pages, Library Binding

First published August 1, 2005

About the author

Steve Barlow (real name Steven Lowe) was born in Britain. He studied at Warwick University and Nottingham University, and worked at various times as a teacher, actor, stage manager and puppeteer. Then he went to teach in Botswana. On his return to the UK he met Steve Skidmore, collectively known as The Two Steves—are British collaborative writers who mostly work in the field of children's literature. They have written over 70 books together.

Reviews

[Sean Harding · Rating 3 out of 5]

Barlow Highs #1
Skidmore Jocks #1
Fairly entertaining yarn, if predictable and unlikely but if you suspend belief for a while you will enjoy the yarn.

[Robert Bone · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good book - I had to read it for my book club. I choose a small book as I had to finish last week's book, but it was better then I expected for a short book. The plot was intresting and the images gave a certain image to the book. Even so, I did find the glossery very repetitve, and the plot just kind of finished -all the loop holes got fixed in a matter of sentances, but I guess thats what you get from short books. A good book, but I wont be reading any more in the series

[Jeffrey Chan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Easy book! still, cool content!

[Gustavom6 · Rating 3 out of 5]

This Book was really a thrill. Had some Great scenes and some bad ones.But really Great at the end Also middle scenes . Also Great Ending!