The Best and Brightest

Sixteen year-old Percy Calder dreams of leaving his uneventful life in the countryside and seeing the world. But his daydreams are about to come true sooner than he thinks - and events soon conspire to change everything.

Before long Percy will have to make the most difficult of choices – and be swept up on a journey that takes him far away and into a whole new life, and into the heart of an adventure that threatens to tear his world apart.

The debut novel from Stephen Leach, The Best and Brightest is an exhilarating tale of jealousy, ambition, life and love in a world where power and danger are impossibly closely intertwined.