The world's youngest arch-ciminal genius is now 13. He finds out his father is being held for ransom, and in the Lower Elements the goblins are revolting. Enjoyably clever!
The boy criminal has to get the technology he stole back from the fiend who stole it from him, to save the fairy land from being discovered. Very good.
Benny's Da is transferred to Tunesia. Benny misses Ireland, and hurling, but makes a friend in Omar, a poor local. Tramatic events ensue.
Words I Had To Look Up:
Rider To The Sea (pg.247) -- An Irish play by John Millington Synge. Hurley (pg. 2) -- Stick used in the Irish game of Hurling.
Quote:
He was of the Father Barry school of coaching, where nothing good ever came of encouragement. Fear of consequences was the only way to make a young chap learn. (pg. 142)