MONSTROUS DEVICES

When twelve-year-old Alex receives an old tin robot in the post | the note from his grandfather simply reads: ‘this one is special’. but as strange events start occurring around him | it doesn't take Alex long to suspect that the small toy is more than special; it might also be deadly. Just as things are getting out of hand | Alex’s grandfather arrives | whisking him away from his otherwise humdrum life and into a world of strange | macabre magic. From Paris to Prague | they flee across snowy Europe in a quest to unravel the riddle of the little robot | and outwit relentless assassins of the human and mechanical kind. How does Alex’s grandfather know them? And can Alex safely harness the robots power | or will it fall into the wrong | wicked hands?.