Money Run

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Action / Adventure
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Scholastic Press March 2013
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Fasten your seat belts for a high-octane adrenaline boost of explosive non-stop action, riveting adventure, daring stunts, and "Mission Impossible" style intrique and superspy antics. Ash and her BFF Benjamin originally began stealing to help Ash out. Her father's meager salary just didn't pay for everything and Ash was just hoping to eke out enough money to get by, but then each job got more thrilling and Ash became addicted to the rush of almost getting caught each time.

A mysterious person or persons named The Source contacts them through Benjamin's gmail account and sends them lists of locations, dates and links and each link has something valuable that Ash and Benjamin could steal. The pair continue pulling off jobs happily along until they are offered $200 million that is located at the Hammond Buckland building. They have never done a job this big and the plan is actually no plan at all.

Ash and Benjamin enter an essay contest sponsored by the company and Benjamin's essay wins. It was written under Ash's name and she has to appear at the company's headquarters to collect the $10,000 prize. She and Benjamin plan to steal the hidden $200 million after Ash's interview. When Ash begins her search of the offices, she realizes that she's not the only one who wants that money. There's an evil hit man lurking in the building and now he's after her. She'll not only have to outsmart security guards, cameras, and heat sensors, but she'll have to do it while outrunning an armed assassin!

The police arrive when a body is discovered in the alley and someone has called in the Terrorism Risk Assessment team. They cordon off the block and won't allow anyone enter or leave the perimeter. This is a problem for Ash--even if she escapes the psycho-hit man assassin and finds the money, she can't leave the building undetected. Ash is a super cool action heroine with moxie and Benjamin is the voice on the other end of her earbuds. Ben is at home and runs the operation from his computer. The two are a dynamic duo and unstoppable as teenage uber thieves.

I LOVED this book! I raced through each chapter wondering what would happen next and as each obstacle appeared in front of Ash, I wondered how she would ever overcome it. Benjamin is her hilarious tongue-in-cheek computer geek sidekick. The ending sets up flawlessly for a sequel. Jack Heath is at the top of his game and the best YA action writer out there. Money Run has it all: adept storytelling, hold your breath action, dead on dialog, non-stop tension and unrelenting pace. This slam bang yarn will captivate teen readers looking for adventure.

Highly, highly recommended grade 7-up. No language. No mature subject matter. Younger readers who are fans of James Bond-like action books may be able to tackle this one.

Recommended by Pamela Thompson, Librarian, Texas USA

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Indestructible.  Is anyone really indestructible?

James Bond sit down.  Meet Ash Arthur.  She and her partner in crime, literally, pull off unimaginable heists together with her steel nerves and unlimited self-confidence and his technological genius.  Armed with his WORST-CASE SCENARIO SURVIVAL HANDBOOK, Benjamin pulls the strings and re routes the monitors in the most sophisticated, well-executed missions possible.

On this heist Ash is headed toward $200 million dollars.  It's somewhere in the HBC building and Benjamin and Ash have that somewhere narrowed down to about three rooms in this twenty-five story building.  Everything should go like clockwork but the unexpected enters the picture in the form of Mr. Ford, number Two most successful assassin in the world.  Mr. Ford is on a job for the government.  He is being paid to do away with Hammond Buckland, billionaire.

Brilliant and intricate attention to detail make this a suspense thriller and action packed adventure worthy of the best spy movies of our times.  Jack Heath gets it all right as he sends Ash into one impossible trap after another while mixing her mission with the cold steel dark force known as Michael Peachey aka Joseph Ford.

This will satisfy the most demanding reader with its explosive, tense, well-thought out scenes of action and ingenuity.

Recommended by:  Barb Langridge, abookandahug.com

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