Blood Guard - La série

Déjà que ça n’est pas facile, quand on est un garçon, d’avoir treize ans, d’avoir été affublé du nom ridicule d’Evelyn Ronan Truelove, imaginez que : 1 / Votre père ait été enlevé. 2 / Votre mère soit en fait un mélange de James Bond et de Wonder Woman – qui conduit des voitures façon cascadeur, court super vite et tranche les balles en deux quand on lui tire dessus. 3 / Vous appreniez qu’elle appartient à une société secrète dont mission est d’empêcher l’apocalypse. Rien que ça. Sauf que, bien évidemment, il y a des « méchants » qui veulent précipiter la fin du monde… … et que ces « méchants » veulent sa peau. Ne serait-ce pas la pire journée de votre vie, à vous aussi ?

Ronan Truelove barely survived his first encounter with his father and the Bend Sinister. Now, he’s determined to become one of the Blood Guard, a sword-wielding secret society sworn to protect thirty-six pure souls crucial to the world’s survival. Eager to prove he’s got what it takes, Ronan is sent on his first mission with his friends Greta and Sammy to visit a weird-sounding school and take a series of tests called the Glass Gauntlet. Paper and pencils and nerdy scholarship—where’s the life-or-death challenge in that? But the Glass Gauntlet is actually something much more dangerous: head-to-head competitions against ruthless opponents. Nothing and no one are what they seem. Who can he trust, and who will kill him? Ronan has to figure it out fast because his enemies are multiplying, and soon he will have to pass the ultimate test: facing his father again and standing up to those who threaten not only him and his friends but also the world.

Ronan Truelove’s best friend, scrappy smart aleck Greta Sustermann, has no idea that she is one of the thirty-six Pure souls crucial to the safety of the world. But Ronan’s evil father has figured it out—and he’s leading the Bend Sinister straight to Greta. If they capture her, she’ll suffer a fate far worse than mere death. But to get to Greta, they’re going to have to go through Ronan first. Standing with Ronan are plucky hacker Sammy; witty, unkillable Jack Dawkins; and a sharp-tongued woman named Diz, who drives a dangerously souped-up taxi. One breathless close call after another leads to an ugly showdown: Ronan alone against his father, with the fate of Greta, his friends, and the entire world hanging in the balance. Will Ronan be able to rise up and prove once and for all that he has what it takes to join the Blood Guard? By turns heart-stopping and hilarious, The Blazing Bridge brings the Blood Guard trilogy to a surprising, clever, and altogether thrilling conclusion.