Day of the Assassins
The year: 1914. The place: Sarajevo.
The mission: assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Jack Christie and his friend Angus are caught up in a major event that will dramatically change the future. Should they intervene? And, more importantly, will they survive?
Longlisted for the 2010 Branford Boase Award and for the Book Trust's Booked Up 2010 programme. Shortlisted for the The Children’s Quills, a new award for historical fiction for children administered through the Historical Association.
"A really gripping read . . . Time travel mixed with warfare, what more could a boy want?" Nat Durman, Sunday Express, June 14 2009
Day of Deliverance
The second Jack Christie adventure finds our schoolboy hero travelling back in time to foil the plot to assassinate Elizabeth I. Meeting famous figures such as Marlowe and Shakespeare along the way, Jack and Angus must thwart the Revisionists and protect Queen Elizabeth’s throne.
"Johnny O’Brien has created the ultimate thinking-boy’s hero in Jack Christie. Smart, intuitive and determined to tackle history head-on, we believe that Jack Christie heralds a new wave of fiction for reluctant readers." Rachel Williams, Editor
Day of Vengeance
Schoolboy time-traveller Jack Christie is thrown back to 1940s France with the Second World War at a crucial point. The Battle of Britain and the German Vengeance programme are underway, as Jack and his best friend Angus take a more senior role in VIGIL's bid to prevent an intervention in history that could go nuclear. With Spitfire dogfights, jeep races and thrilling chases, the boys have their most hair-raising adventure yet, including involvement in an assassination attempt on Hilter.