Joseph Delaney used to be an English teacher, before becoming the best-selling author of the Spook's series, which has been published in 30 countries and sold over 4.5 million copies worldwide. The first book, The Spook's Apprentice, was adapted into a major motion picture starring Jeff Bridges and Julianne Moore.

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When teen adventurer Beck Granger finds himself stranded on a Himalayan mountainside, he has to draw on all his strength and skill to survive. 
 
After death-defying climbing and sheltering in some of the hardest terrain on earth, Beck also has to somehow make it through bear attacks and flash floods. But the biggest challenge of all is still ahead… 
 
Can Beck finally learn the truth about his parents’ deaths and bring their killers to justice?

Mission Survival 8: Lair of the Leopard

The first book in an explosive adventure series from real-life survival expert BEAR GRYLLS 
 
Mission: Survival 
Location: The Colombian Jungle 
Dangers: Snakes; starvation; howler monkeys 
 
Beck Granger is lost in the jungle with no food, no compass, and no hope of rescue. 
 
But Beck is no ordinary teenager - he's the world's youngest survival expert. If anyone can make it out alive, he can.

Mission Survival 1: Gold of the Gods

A gripping adventure story from Bear Grylls, packed with real survival details and dangers at every turn! 
 
When Beck Granger is ship-wrecked in the open seas, he needs all of his survival skills to save a small group of passengers. 
 
But the sinking was no accident. In order to stay alive, he’ll have to work out who wants him dead, and why. 
 
That is, if the sharks don’t get him first . . .

Mission Survival 6: Strike of the Shark

A gripping Australian adventure story from Bear Grylls, packed with real survival details and dangers at every turn! 
 
When Beck Granger follows a mysterious clue to the town of Broome in Northern Australia, it is just the beginning of an adventure that will force him into some of his toughest survival challenges yet! 
 
The search for clues takes Beck into the heart of the Outback, where he must battle raging storms, ravenous crocodiles, cunning villains and a secret that may link back to the death of his parents many years ago . . .

Mission Survival 5: Claws of the Crocodile

Young adventurer Beck Granger is invited to South Africa by an old friend of his parents' to help out on a project to prevent rhino poaching. But when he arrives all is not as it seems, and Beck is caught up in something more dangerous than anything he's ever survived before . . . 
 
Not only are there the poachers to contend with, but somebody seems desperate to track Beck down - whatever the cost. And then there are the hundreds of wild animals . . .

Mission Survival 7: Rage of the Rhino

MISSION: SURVIVAL 
LOCATION: The Alaskan mountains 
DANGERS: Blizzards; grizzly bears; white-water rapids 
 
A fatal plane crash. A frozen wilderness. The world’s youngest survival expert is in trouble again . . . 
 
Beck Granger must find help across the mountains – but even if he survives the deadly cold, can he escape the hungry wolf that is on his trail? 
 
The second book in an explosive adventure series from real-life survival expert BEAR GRYLLS

Mission Survival 2: Way of the Wolf

MISSION: Survival 
LOCATION: The Indonesian jungle 
DANGERS: Lava flows; fearsome tigers; orang-utans 
 
Young survival expert Beck Granger is supposed to be enjoying a holiday. But when a volcano erupts he is stranded and must flee from red-hot lava and molten rocks crashing out of the sky. 
 
If he is to stay alive, he must make his way acrossthe jungle to safety – travelling right through the heart of tiger territory . . . 
 
The fourth book in an explosive adventure series from real-life survival expert BEAR GRYLLS.

Mission Survival 4: Tracks of the Tiger

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