Oliver Kingston and the Watchers’ Call

His father vanished at the edge of a secret. Now the stars are calling Oliver Kingston.

Fifteen-year-old Oliver Kingston speaks six languages, holds the highest grades in the history of Thorpe Hall and knows the night sky better than his own reflection. Raised on his archaeologist father’s daring theories of ancient contact between humanity and the stars, Oliver has always been a seeker of celestial truths.

Then an explosion tears through a remote mine in Peru and Doctor David Kingston disappears without a trace. The officials call it an accident. The armed guards still working the “destroyed” mine say otherwise.

With his fast-talking hacker best friend Gabriel and Alfred, the family’s unflappable guardian, Oliver follows a trail of coded clues from the Andes to Los Angeles, from the snows of Davos to ancient painted caves on the Tanzanian savanna and finally to the frozen heart of Antarctica. At the centre of it all lies Rastizium, a mineral of unimaginable power with ties to humanity’s forgotten past. And as a billionaire’s planet-saving climate machine counts down to switch-on, something far older than humanity is watching.

Fast, funny and full of heart, Oliver Kingston and the Watchers’ Call is a globe-trotting sci-fi adventure about ancient mysteries, lost knowledge, friendship that feels like family and a son who refuses to give up on his father. It asks what price must be paid for knowledge and what it truly means to look to the stars.

Perfect for fans of Percy Jackson, Indiana Jones, Tristan Strong and Ancient Aliens, and for anyone who has ever looked up and wondered.