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- ISBN 9781781454787
- Dimensions: 130 x 195mm
- Publication Date: 10 Oct 2023
- Publisher: GMC Publications
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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An exhilarating combination of escape room, puzzle book and adventure story, this book is inspired by the urban craze for escape rooms as well as the history surrounding America’s most infamous prison.
Readers will take on the role of Scott Wilson, a member of an underground US environmental movement called the Wilderness, who has discovered that a farming lobby is illegally using toxic pesticides to sell large amounts of land cheaply to corrupt politicians. There is enough evidence safely tucked away in a secret location to bring these criminals to justice, but failed sting operation takes place which leaves an FBI agent dead and Scott framed for the murder.
Framed as a traitor and a murderer and sent to Alcatraz as a result, the reader must escape the forbidding, top-security jail, recover the lost evidence and stop the pollution and land sale before it’s too late. Surrounded by the most notorious, dangerous and unpredictable inmates, the reader will quickly learn that their only means of escape will be from solving hidden puzzles using the code wheel left behind by the renowned criminal mastermind Robert Stroud – the famous Birdman of Alcatraz.
Nobody has ever escaped Alcatraz alive, and with time quickly running out, the reader will have to find unlikely allies who can help them break out and aid them when they come to face the perilous waters surrounding the prison in order to escape the Rock.
Combines riddles, logic puzzles, timed challenges, mathematical brain-teasers, maps and mazes.
Charles Phillips is the author of more than 40 books, whose How to Think puzzle series sold more than a million copies and was translated into 18 languages. He was the editor of Biographic: Sherlock (Ammonite Press, 2018). Together, they have written three Sherlock Holmes puzzle books, The Adventure of the British Museum (Ammonite Press, 2020), The Adventure of the Analytical Engine (Ammonite Press, 2022) and The Adventure of the Tower of London (Ammonite Press, 2022).
Melanie Frances specialises in developing interactive stories featuring games and puzzles. She is joint artistic director of interactive digital arts organisation Produced Moon, with whom she has created a range of immersive and interactive experiences, including escape rooms and app-based audio adventures.
