The Falling Star

Mission Top Secret #1

by Maureen McCarthy

Albert and Victoria race against time to reach the Astrotel super-communications 'brain' space lab before the evil Neville Savage. They successfully create the Centauri Network, an international computer-linked association of children connected by the world's most powerful computer, which is housed in a farm in the Australian outback

182 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

Maureen McCarthy, the ninth of ten children, was born in 1953 in country Victoria. She has worked as a teacher in Victorian secondary schools and has written scripts for television and educational films. Her film credits include 'Skipping Class', he award-winning documentary, 'Eating Your Heart Out', and the SBS mini-series, 'In Between', which was later adapted inot four novels by Maureen. Her latest works includes the novels Ganglands and Cross My Heart, which was published in 1993 and short-listed for the NSW Premier's Prize in that year. An Australian author and scriptwriter, her novels concern the lives of emerging adults, from ages sixteen to early twenties. McCarthy has three sons and lives in Melbourne.
Maureen dedicated her story in the collection 'Family: A Collection of Short Stories' to the memory of her much-loved nephew, Justin Haire, who died tragically in October 1993, aged 21 years.