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Give a person a book and you might change their day. Give the right person the right book and you might change their life. That is the philosophy of The Major, the father of the nearest thing Fox Mulder has to a best-schoolmate. He may well appear to be a wacky – some could even go as far as saying Spooky – conspiracy nut, with some novel manner in home security, but he certainly swears that the truth to his wife's death, and so much more, is either out there, or in the pages of a Michael Moorcock fantasy novel. It's a situation not a million miles away from that which Fox finds himself in, for he is eternally frustrated at the lack of effort he sees in the search for his own baby sister. But before he can settle back with his new read, and before The Major can really prove himself formative, Fox gets rapt in new, local cases of child kidnap, that even though he and his father moved state recently, have a galling familiarity…
Out of all the X-Files books, from the original (poor) to the second-wave (much better) tie-in novels, to the slender YA efforts and the current graphic novels inventing their own fantasy tenth and eleventh series, there certainly was scope to look into the past of the main characters and provide back-story. And Fox certainly has a back-story worth concentrating on – there's not just the stalwart character we know and love, but what made him such, especially the loss of Samantha Mulder to some kind of abduction. But this being ''The X-Files'', we cannot just concentrate on those riches. No, we have to see the main story arc leach through the pages of a stand-alone drama.
I must thank the publishers for my review copy.
Teen thrillers is a worthwhile genre to explore these days, with the likes of [[Charisma by Jeanne Ryan]]. You might also enjoy [[Unbreakable by Kami Garcia]]. You might also appreciate [[The X-Files: Earth Children are Weird. A Picture Book by Jason Rekulak and Kim Smith]].
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