The Rig / Joe Ducie.

By: Ducie, Joe [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Religionen im Gespräch ; bk. 1.Publisher: London : Hot Key Books, 2013Description: 358 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781471402197 (pbk.) :; 1471402193Subject(s): Escapes -- Juvenile fiction | Prisoners -- Juvenile fiction | Juvenile delinquents | Prisons | Juvenile delinquents -- Fiction | Prisons -- Fiction | Juvenile delinquents -- Juvenile fiction | Prisons -- Juvenile fiction | Prisons -- Juvenile fiction | Young adult fiction | Teen fiction | Juvenile delinquents -- Juvenile fiction | Escapes -- Fiction | AustralianGenre/Form: Science fiction | Young adult fiction | Young adult fiction | Fiction. | Juvenile works. | Young adult works. | Teen fiction | Science fiction DDC classification: 823.92 LOC classification: DUCOther classification: I561.84
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Fifteen-year-old Will Drake has made a career of breaking out from high-security prisons. His talents have landed him at the Rig, a specialist juvenile holding facility in the middle of the Arctic Ocean. No one can escape from the Rig. No one except for Drake...After making some escape plans and meeting the first real friends of his life, Drake quickly realises that all is not as it seems on the Rig. The Warden is obsessed with the mysterious Crystal-X -- a blue, glowing substance that appears to give superpowers to the teens exposed to it. Drake, Tristan and Irene are banking on a bid for freedom -- but can they survive long enough to make it? Drake is an action hero to rival Jason Bourne and the Cherub team in this debut author's fantastically imagined sci-fi nightmare.
Awards: Winner of the Young Writers Prize, 2012.Summary: There is no escape from the Rig. A maximum security juvenile prison stranded in the middle of the Arctic Ocean. But Will Drake likes a challenge, and this will be the biggest one yet. Imprisoned in an impossibly secure institution for the very worst of the world's kis, Drake knows two things - he will have to be tough to survive, and there is always a way out.
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Fifteen-year-old Will Drake has made a career of breaking out from high-security prisons. His talents have landed him at the Rig, a specialist juvenile holding facility in the middle of the Arctic Ocean. No one can escape from the Rig. No one except for Drake...After making some escape plans and meeting the first real friends of his life, Drake quickly realises that all is not as it seems on the Rig. The Warden is obsessed with the mysterious Crystal-X -- a blue, glowing substance that appears to give superpowers to the teens exposed to it. Drake, Tristan and Irene are banking on a bid for freedom -- but can they survive long enough to make it? Drake is an action hero to rival Jason Bourne and the Cherub team in this debut author's fantastically imagined sci-fi nightmare.

There is no escape from the Rig. A maximum security juvenile prison stranded in the middle of the Arctic Ocean. But Will Drake likes a challenge, and this will be the biggest one yet. Imprisoned in an impossibly secure institution for the very worst of the world's kis, Drake knows two things - he will have to be tough to survive, and there is always a way out.

Winner of the Young Writers Prize, 2012.

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