412 pages
English language
Published May 10, 2008 by Hyperion Books for Children.
5 stars
(1 review)
In the late nineteenth century, when Conor Broekhart discovers a conspiracy to overthrow the king, he is branded a traitor, imprisoned, and forced to mine for diamonds under brutal conditions while he plans a daring escape from Little Saltee prison by way of a flying machine that he must design, build, and, hardest of all, trust to carry him to safety.
Subjects
- Flying-machines -- Juvenile fiction
- Prisoners -- Juvenile fiction
- Adventure and adventurers -- Juvenile fiction
- Inventors -- Juvenile fiction
- Islands -- Juvenile fiction
- Little Saltee (Ireland) -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile fiction
- Ireland -- History -- 1837-1901 -- Juvenile fiction