Tucker and Tori witness several incidents of SYLO using lethal force against the islanders as well as taking people away. However, Tucker and Quinn begin to wonder if the invasion has something to do with what they saw the night Marty died. Not only are troops mobilized on their island, but the entire island is surrounded by warships. The soldier in charge of the quarantine and blockade of the island, Colonel Granger, tells people that no one is allowed on or off the island. Both tourists and residents alike are told that there have been several deaths due to an unknown virus. After a second death occurs during the annual Lobster Pot Festival, the island is invaded by a secret branch of the United States Navy called SYLO. But Marty took too much and it killed him.Ī few days after this, life on Pemberwick Island changes forever. Ruby is a physical performance enhancing drug that works like no other, giving a person the ability to move and react super fast. He finds this out from a stranger, Ken Feit, who was at the football game and who approaches Tucker, tells him about Ruby and lets him try it. Meanwhile, Tucker knows that there was something strange about Marty's death and he soon learns that Marty took a substance called "Ruby". No answers are supplied and inexplicably, the Coast Guard takes over the investigation. But when a brilliant streak of light destroys the shadow in a devastating explosion, Tucker and Quinn, shocked by what they have just seen, report what has happened to the local sheriff. That same night Tucker and Quinn go for one of their clandestine bike rides around the island and encounter an incredible sight, a strange dark shadow flying near the island's coast accompanied by faint musical notes. But that is only the beginning of the mysterious happenings on Pemberwick Island. Seconds after scoring another touch-down, Marty drops dead. But whenever Marty returns to the sidelines, he looks anything but normal. Arbortown High freshman, Tucker watches as senior tailback, Marty Wiggins, has the game of his life. The story opens with a high school football game that turns deadly. Todd is crushing on her but too shy to get to know Tori. Tucker also knows cute, but odd, Tori Sleeper, whose father runs a lobster business.
Tucker knows her because she is staying at The Blackbird and he often works on the grounds of the hotel. She is older than Tucker and attends a prep school in New York. Olivia Kinsey is from New York City and has been spending the summer with her mother on Pemberwick Island.
Kent is often hostile and bullying towards Tucker who isn't as athletic as the linebacker. There's Kent Berringer, a junior who plays middle linebacker on the school football team and whose parents own the nicest hotel, The Blackbird, on Pemberwick Island. Tucker's family moved from Greenwich, Connecticut after his father who was a civil engineer, lost his job, while Quinn's parents who are ER doctors moved from Philadephia to enjoy a less stressful work life.īesides Tucker and Quinn, several other people round out their circle of friends. Both Tucker and Quinn are transplants to Pemberwick Island. The cast of characters includes fourteen year old Tucker Pierce and his best friend, Quinn Carr. The novel is set on (fictional) idyllic Pemberwick Island off the coast of Maine. It's smooth, with thrilling pulses of adventure set at exactly the right points to keep the reader moving along. SYLO, a novel about a group of teens trying to uncover the mysterious situation developing on their island, reads like a well written television script.
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MacHale is both a well known television producer and children's author, having written the Pendragon series as well as the Morpheus Road trilogy.
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