<p>The carnival gates swing open but no one leaves.</p><p>When Ewen Useless Euston and his best friend Perry sneak into the grand opening of The New Carnival they expect a few free rides and maybe some trouble for sneaking in. What they don't expect is to find every adult slumped unconscious and every child vanishing into thin air.</p><p>Then their friend Will wins a strange token in a rigged arcade game. One canoe ride later the boys are transported to an alien planet where the sun never sets and nothing is what it seems.</p><p>Drugged food. Grinning surveillance heads. Monstrous hounds. And a gang of red-crested criminals who see children as cargo.</p><p>Useless and his friends must outwit intergalactic kidnappers befriend terrifying alien creatures and find a way home before time runs out or they'll be lost forever.</p><p>Packed with fast-paced action dry humour and nail-biting escapes <em>Useless and the Carnival of Terror</em> is the second adventure in A Useless Series perfect for readers 10+ who love brave underdogs bizarre mysteries and impossible odds.</p>