Jarli only narrowly escaped death after his world-shattering app made him infamous. Now there’s a new foe afoot and Jarli is far from safe in this thrilling sequel to The Truth App.
When a seemingly unoccupied plane crash lands in the middle of Kelton, Jarli’s attempts to lay low and out of Viper’s criminal crosshairs crash lands along with it.
The cause of the accident is a mystery until his Truth App uncovers a dangerous secret at the crash site—a secret Viper will do anything to keep buried.
Suddenly Jarli is a target again and on the run with his high school tormentor, Doug. There’s no one he can trust, not even the police—and Jarli’s starting to think Doug is hiding something, too. Constantly at odds and left with no other choice, they team up to conduct an investigation of their own. But when Doug’s past comes back to haunt them, Jarli fears that there’s little hope in getting out of this one alive.
Kelton was supposed to be the perfect hiding place. But there’s no hiding from the truth.
Jack Heath wrote his debut novel, The Lab, in secondary school and sent it to a publisher at age seventeen. He's now the award-winning author of forty novels for adults and children, including the international bestsellers Hangman, The Wife Swap and 300 Minutes of Danger. His books have been translated into ten languages, optioned for TV and adapted for film. He lives on Ngunnawal/Ngambri country in Canberra, Australia, with his wife, their children, several chickens, a few fish and a possum named Oreo.
Wham !!! Great follow up to the action packed adventures Jarli experiences in Jack Heath's first novel from the Liars series (The Truth App). I introduced some reluctant readers to that book and they'll be very pleased to see this new title land on their library shelves. Jack Heath has created a modern, tech-savvy, danger-filled world for kids to lose themselves within. The next one is due out in March, 2019. We'll be ready !
This is the fourth book by Jack Heath that I have read, and the second in the Liars series. It is an excellent continuation of The Truth App. I am really enjoying the series and looking forward to where this series is going. This book is written for teens or a Young Adult audience, but I believe any fans of a good mystery or thriller will love this book and series. In some ways reading this was like watching an action movie. Once again once I started, I could not stop. And I devoured most of the novel in a single sitting. This is an incredible installment in what is shaping up to be an amazing series!
The first four books have been published in Australia and the 5th has been delivered to the publisher by the author. Fortunately, all of the published volumes appear to be available electronically world wife. But for those who prefer a physical book, book 1 is not due out until January 2020 in North America and I cannot find any date for this or subsequent volumes. I am very thankful for this because many Australian authors I discover, it is hard to get all of their books in North America. So, I recommend you give this series a try for you will be in for an action pack fast paced read.
This second volume picks up shortly after the first. And we find out a little bit more about Kelton, about Jarli, Anya, and Doug. Kelton seems to hide a lot of secrets for a small town in Australia. In this volume a plane crashes in Kelton destroying a house, but when Jarli rushes into the wreckage, there appears to be no one on board. He is again interrogated by the police. And soon he finds that he cannot trust anyone even the police. And Jarli lies to his parents to help Anya and soon finds himself back in the thick of things with the criminal mastermind Viper.
The action in this book is almost nonstop. From the plane crashing to the surprise ending the story races from the get-go. The writing is very tight. The plot is intense. And We learn a little more about Viper, Jarli and his friends. And the book leaves you desperate for the third installment.
Another great read in an excellent series!
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Previously, Jarli had helped catch Cobra but then he vanished from his prison cell, leaving only a note behind from Viper telling Jarli to mind his own business.
A plane crash destroys a house in Kelton. It turns out it was Doug's parents' house. They have been in witness protection; however, almost immediately, Viper and his crew (crime boss - real name and identity was unknown) must have known where they were living. Immediately, the police are on the scene; however, they want to know what Jarli and Bess know and what Doug said. He doesn't tell them that he has seen the parachute fabric from an emergency rescue - someone has escaped. The cause of the accident is a mystery and all the passengers are missing.
Jarli and Bess go back to the crash scene at night and see two men (Scanner and Bagger) in dark, grey suits with torches and a metal detector looking for something. They seem to find the object they want and it looks like a data projector.
Jarli has been lying low since the crime boss known as Viper threatened his family. But then his Truth App uncovers a dangerous secret at the crash site a secret Viper wants to stay buried. Suddenly Jarli is a target again. There's no-one he can trust, not even the police. He has to find out what else Viper is hiding before it's too late.
Part Two goes back to the plane being about to land - even though there are no passengers. All seats had been sold to a Stephen Fussell, but he hadn't turned up. Nevertheless, they had insisted that she still fly. When close to landing, all of her equipment failed. Then the plane is drawn to a laser light - she has been remotely hijacked.
The book is definitely full of action and mystery which is the type of book I like as it makes me as the reader wonder what will happen to "them". Highly recommended if you're into action stories!
Mon fils avait beaucoup aimé le 1er et donc lorsque le second a vu le jour, il l'a eu entre les mains, jusqu'à ce qu'il décide enfin à me le refiler (en fait le 3ème est arrivé en sp, donc il n'a pas eu le choix mouahahah) Bref, ce second opus nous entraîne dans une nouvelle aventure où Jarli voit un avion s'écraser sur une maison en plein cœur de sa petite ville. Attention, il s'agit d'un jet, donc plus petit qu'un Boeing, mais un avion tout de même. Qui plonge directement sur une maison, celle de Doug, un camarade de classe qui ne cesse de l'embêter. Jarli et Bess ont vu la plongée et lorsqu'ils arrivent ils vont avoir un choc : l'avion est vide, pas de passagers, pas de pilote et par chance personne dans la maison. C'est là que tout va commencer pour Jarli : une nouvelle aventure dangereuse est à ses pieds.
Jarli, adolescent comme la plupart des personnages, se retrouve toujours dans le pétrin, qu'il le veuille ou non à moins que ce ne soit les ennuis qui le poursuivent. Bref, un avion qui tombe du ciel, c'est peu commun, mais lorsque sa meilleure amie Bess perd un écrou de l'une de ses béquilles et que les deux y vont en pleine nuit, forcément ils vont tomber sur deux individus malfamés ! tout ça pour un écrou et c'est la cavalcade. Retrouvaille de Doug (qui avait disparu) à la recherche des parents perdus (de Doug dont nous apprenons des choses très intéressantes sur lui, sa famille et ses liens avec cette histoire), retrouvons le pilote (au passage qui est vraiment dans la panade) et tombons sur les vilains (mais entre le double-jeu, le vrai-faux gentil-méchant, la toile qui se resserre...) tout en pensant qu'ils sont du bon côté de la barrière, Jarli n'a qu'à bien se tenir (ou courir, se cacher, faire comme s'il ne savait rien)
Il ne faut pas oublier son appli qui détecte les mensonges juste avec la voix et là, les ennuis ? Non, si peu, cela risque de ne pas s'arrêter de suite (surtout si on met dans la confidence une journaliste qui a les dents longues et qui veut ABSOLUMENT être la première à avoir LE Meilleur SCOOP ! Tout ce beau mélange donne tout ce qu'il faut pour ce type de lecture : action, rebondissement, stress et bien entendu des ados qui ne sont pas que des héros. J'avoue que je me suis demandée s'il n'avait pas un grain à un moment. Jarli réfléchi un peu plus, fait toujours autant de bruit et arrive à se faire de nouveaux amis. Il n'y a pas que Bess, Jarli et Doug, nous avons aussi la pilote, l'infirmière, les flics, deux camoufleurs en tenue de scaphandre, les parents de Doug et de Jarli (que l'on voit peu, mais ils sont importants pour l'histoire.
Le courage ? Personne n'en manque, tout comme la peur de se faire prendre, ou de mourir. Les secondes s'écoulent bien trop vite et le fameux Viper n'est toujours pas découvert. Qui est-il ? Sincèrement, je n'ai aucune idée. Dans tous les cas il est ingénieux, prêt à tout pour ne pas laisser de traces physiques ou même de personnes derrière lui. Le danger n'est jamais loin et grâce à lui nous n'avons pas beaucoup de temps mort. C'est un personnage que l'on ne voit pas, mais qui est présent tout le temps. Le besoin d'aider les autres ? Jarli a toujours envie de donner un coup de main, ou de pied, ou tout simplement d'éviter de sortir le moindre mensonge. Et côté mensonge, il sait comment faire pour éviter que son appli ne le montre du doigt. Et le danger c'est justement qu'il ne puisse dire de mensonge pour protéger ses amis et sa famille, car Viper veille au grain.
Le récit nous entraîne, petit et grand, dans une aventure qui montre l'évolution des personnages. (en plus de la dangerosité qui augmente au fur et à mesure) Jarli est un peu plus mature, il sait que le danger n'est pas juste un mot. Il court, se cache, doit imaginer bon nombre de stratagème pour s'en sortir. Dans l'usine j'ai eu un coup de stress pour lui et Doug, me demandant bien comment ils vont s'en sortir. Jarli est doué en informatique ce petit, lorsqu'il sera grand, il devrait bien se débrouiller, même si dans ce temps ses parents ne sot pas loin de son intelligence. La surprise est de taille lorsque nous comprenons enfin qui est l'un des bras droit ou gauche enfin juste un membre de l'équipe de Viper. Je ne m'attendais pas du tout à cela et je dois dire que une fois tout mis bout à bout, cela devient logique, que cela en est rageant. Ce qui est très sympa, c'est également le fait que la fameuse appli vérité reste dans cette seconde histoire, car elle est utilisée à des fins plus ou moins bonnes.
En conclusion, un second tome rempli d'actions, de rebondissements et de surprises. Jarli est un ado qui a plus ou moins la tête sur les épaules et qui cherchent malgré tout à compter sur les adultes. Il faut juste faire attention à une chose : la confiance ne peut pas être donnée à tout le monde !
This second in the Liars Book series is at least as tense and entertaining as The Truth App. Although it’s possible to read this one as a standalone (given that references to events in the first book are brief and clarifying), it would be better to read them both, in order, given that this one builds on the action and characters of the first. The writing is great, and I enjoy the bits of humor sprinkled in.
Scanner ripped Jarli’s shirt open. Parts of the fabric had frozen and stuck to his skin. It felt like a thousand Band-Aids getting pulled off at once. But Jarli couldn’t breathe well enough to scream. Scanner put a blanket over Jarli. It was rough, stiff, and heavy. A fire blanket. “Keep him warm” he said. “The police will be here any minute. When they arrive, it’s important that you don’t tell them about me.”
For two days, nothing much happened. Kirstie posted a theory on social media that Jarli had been abducted by aliens, and that his sudden frostbite could only have come from exposure to the vacuum of space. She got some enthusiastic comments from some very sketchy people, and then Mum and Dad made her delete the post.
As for fans of high-tech, here’s an example of the author skillfully weaving together that aspect with his trademark thriller plotting:
Jarli still couldn’t figure out why the virus had deleted everything on the control room computer. That shouldn’t have happened. But his plan had worked. The virus had transmitted hundreds of hours of footage to the server in India. Hacking it was easier than Jarli had expected. It used a proxy server, but Jarli could break through by overloading the proxy with requests from a shell script. And they had a tough firewall, but the [virus] was permitted to bypass it in order to deliver stolen files to them. So Jarli had modified the virus. He’d changed the destination IP address so the files would be sent to his computer, rather than to India. Then he’d sent the virus back to them. The Indian hacker had been burgled by his own virus. Jarli was thrilled with his own cleverness, but he couldn’t tell anyone about it. What he had done was probably illegal.
Once again Jack Heath has written a gripping action series that kids will love. Kids always have a fascination with truth/lying, and Jarli, a teen software genius, has invented a truth detection app that everyone has on their phones - and that has made him the target for hatred and revenge. In 'No Survivors', Jarli and his family and friend, Bess, are tangled in a situation when a plane crashes into a house in their hometown of Kelton - again the work of criminal mastermind, Viper, who is after Jarli as well. This techno-thriller is a page-turning read for any kid/young teen.
Fast paced action that will have kids (and parents) on the edge of their seat reading as fast as they can.
As always the story is carefully constructed to be age-appropriate, in this case probably ten years and over. Ideal for reluctant readers, and those who need lots of action and excitement. Can't wait to find out what happens in book 3!
This time last year, I reviewed the first book in this series. A lot of what I said about that one apply to this one as well; it's fast paced, it's exciting, it's a short read compared to some teen novels. The mystery of the Viper deepens as Jarli finds himself caught up again, through no fault of his own, in the crime lord's machinations.
Anya, one of Jarli's sidekicks in the first novel, was sidelined in this one in favour of a new friend. Jarli also gains a couple of tentative allies, and I have a feeling he'll need all of them when the series continues. I'm not sure how long this series will run, but based on these two, I'll be right here to find out what happens next.
A great quick read, and you could read this one without reading the first one as just about everything you need is explained in it.
Fun little adventure. Reminds me of the Janet Evanovich formula, so I’m expecting that pattern to continue in the next book which I honestly don’t mind. Truly hate that I’m actually enjoying this.
More fast paced action and thrilling intrigue as the Liars series continues. Perfect for any kid who finds books boring. Perfect for anyone who likes a cool story that races along at a rollicking pace. Loved it.
I really enjoy this series. I like that they are short and fast-paced, and that they throw you right into the action of the story. There is a lot of action, and there are a lot of tense moments. Jarli is an interesting character; he's smart and resourceful. I liked the way that this added further complications to his life. I will definitely be continuing this series.
This book made me think about to not truth anyone if they are dogey. "Keton was the perfect hiding place until now".
The writer is teaching us about being careful about being around strangers because you never know who to truth. I know this being in the book the police man was helping people but he was a bad guy not good.
In my opinion, you should never trust anyone that you don't know expressly if they like really bad and look evil. Some people can look really nice but aren't because they trick you to thinking they are. So children and others need to be careful