Tunnels

This new book Tunnels will be the new Harry Potter, I recommend it very much.

In Tunnels, 14-year-old Will Burrows and his friend Chester Rawls discover an underground city. The front cover shows a city at the end of a tunnel and on the back cover are the words "Try it! Read page 177". If you do, you'll find Will and Chester, deep underground, coming upon a road, street lights and houses. Along with clues generously salted away in the text from the outset, most readers will be waiting for the boys to discover thecity. Along the way, those who come close to discovering this underworld are "disappeared" by a mysterious group of flat-capped, pallid-faced, overcoat-wearing figures whose eyes are covered by sunglasses. Will's father, the archaeologist Dr Burrows, is one such man. But, as is so often the case, he's left behind a journal. When the "Topsoilers" do finally get down into the colony, it all becomes fantastic fun. What works so well is that, once they are captured by the underground Colonists, there is a revelation far greater than the long-expected discovery. The danger in the darkness is very real and is well worth the wait.