If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. He went on to study at Plymouth University in Devon.We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. He moved to Launceston, Cornwall, as a teenager, where he attended Torpoint High School. where he attended Battersea Grammar School. However, no confirmation of this proposal is yet available. Most readers who love action and spy fiction will devour this dynamic book in a single sitting or two, otherwise they’ll be in extreme agony waiting to see what happens next.' The possibility of Fledgling being made into a film is also discussed on the same website, and the idea was reported in the Cornish and Devon Post newspaper in November 2008 too. Soldier, a British Forces monthly magazine, called it 'A page-turning fast read,' the Yorkshire Evening Post said 'Jason Steed is James Bond as a boy' and wrote: 'A coming of age heart wrenching story packed with laughs and fast paced action. 'You will laugh, cry and get hooked on this exciting coming of age adventure,' wrote the Navy News. Raymond has been officially recognised by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission as the youngest recorded fatality of the British service war dead.įledgling A Jason Steed Adventure has received several favourable reviews from notable publications. Raymond and his 20 crew mates died on 26 April 1943, after their ship, Empire Morn, exploded after hitting a U-Boat mine near Casablanca, Morocco. Raymond, from Newport, was 14 years and 207 days old when he died - just five months after joining up. Raymond Victor Steed was a galley boy on a Merchant Navy ship when it was blown up and sunk after hitting a German mine off the African coast in 1943. The book has been compared to the Alex Rider, Young Bond and CHERUB series, which all feature child spies, as well as the Harry Potter books and young Jason Bourne. The book 'narrowly beat' the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer to win the award.įledgling A Jason Steed Adventure (ISBN-13: 9780741449344) was published in September 2008.

In March 2009, it was voted as the Top Young Adult Book for 2009 by. The book, about an 11-year-old martial arts expert and spy, is notable for being a world-wide 'word of mouth' internet hit, despite being self-published. Fledgling Jason Steed, otherwise known as Fledgling A Jason Steed Adventure, is the first novel in the Jason Steed series written by British author Mark A.

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