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Overview

After saving the world’s oceans in Firestorm, Jack Danielson goes home to see P.J., his girlfriend and sole remaining touchstone. But she’s missing, and blame falls on Jack. Now he’s on the run with Gisco, his crafty canine sidekick, and is literally caught up in a whirlwind as he travels to the heart of darkness to rescue P.J.—a journey that will bring him face-to-face with the Dark Lord, the father of his old nemesis. Jack’s quest becomes nearly impossible as he discovers that the only person who can stop the Dark Lord is an old man from the future, but no one knows where he is, or if he even exists. But if anyone can find him, it’s Jack. The fate of the future is once again in his hands, but will Jack be able to travel halfway around the world, find a missing time traveler, and raise a powerful army in time to save the world?

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AGERANGE: Ages 12 to 18.

In this action-packed ecological thriller, Jack, our hero, has been gone from his hometown for six months, off fulfilling his destiny and saving Earth’s oceans. Now he returns to try to see his high school sweetheart, P.J., only to discover that she’s disappeared and he’s being blamed. Jack escapes with the wisecracking telepathic dog Gisco and heads off in a hot air balloon for the Amazon to rescue P.J. and save the planet once again. The Dark Lord is destroying the rain forest, and only the great wizard scientist, the Mysterious Kidah, can stop him. Jack must find Kidah and P.J and help fight the dread Dark Lord and his army. Eko, the beautiful “Ninja Babe” from the future, is there to help as Jack faces all kinds of new dangers in this breathless adventure. While the plot of Book 1, Firestorm, is summarized, this will work better for those familiar with that story than new readers, but every YA will enjoy the nonstop action, the fantasy and horror elements, and the heartfelt ecological message. Reviewer: Paula Rohrlick
March 2008 (Vol. 42, No.2)

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Klass continues his ecological science fiction adventure by sending heroic earthly caretaker Jack Danielson back to the home he fled in the first book of The Caretaker Trilogy, Firestorm (Frances Foster Books/Farrar Straus Giroux, 2006/VOYA October 2006), to find his girlfriend, P.J. Jack soon finds out from his psychic shaggy-dog pal, Gisco, that she has been abducted, and the villainous Dark Army is hot on their trail. The search for the love of Jack's young life leads them back to the woman he is apparently destined to marry, Eko, which make things complicated, and through dangerous jungles in hopes of waking an ancient warrior to battle the Dark Army's Dark Lord. The next installment is again difficult to anticipate with any emotion stronger than grim determination to see the series conclude. Although the second book is a vast improvement over the first, many of the same quibbles still exist: convoluted storytelling, racing right from one adventure to another, and still too many sentence fragments. Plus Jack keeps gets knocked out a lot, and throughout the book he faces off against vampire bats, vampire fish (in two separate scenes), and a deadly elderly balloonist. If this were a tongue-in-cheek action-adventure send-up, that sequence might fly. But there is no evidence that Klass is portraying his tale as anything other than deadly serious, which still leaves things deathly dull. Reviewer: Matthew Weaver
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In this second book of "The Caretaker Trilogy," Jack Danielson, who returns home in hopes of reuniting with his girlfriend, PJ, discovers that she has been kidnapped, and that he is the prime suspect. With the help of Gisco, a telepathic dog, Jack escapes and learns that not only does he have to save PJ but also the world. The Dark Lord is back, and he is intent on destroying the Amazon rain forests and getting revenge on Jack for killing his son. The ethereal ninja babe, Eko, returns from the future to assist Jack on his mission to find the Mysterious Kidah, a great wizard-scientist and the only person capable of thwarting the Dark Lord. While the action packed, fast paced plot is bound to appeal to some readers, specifically reluctant male readers, most will not be impressed. Jack's voice is not consistent, seeming uncharacteristically too adult at times. The female characters are stereotypical action babes—undeveloped, generally passive, with the primary purpose of providing sexual titillation. Despite these drawbacks, the end of chapter cliff hangers, strange Amazon creatures, and non-stop action will draw a certain audience and keep them reading until the end. Reviewer: Melissa Joy Adams
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Gr 8 Up- Returning home to Hadley-by-Hudson after surviving his treacherous, six-month-long quest to save the Earth's oceans in Firestorm (Farrar, 2006), Jack Danielson is anxious to make sure that his girlfriend is all right. He is horrified to find that P.J. is missing and that he is considered responsible not only for her disappearance, but also for the deaths of his parents, who perished trying to save him from the Dark Army in the first book. This evil army from the future has now kidnapped P.J. and is gathering its forces to thwart Jack in his mission to save the planet from ecological disaster. To find P.J. and fulfill his mission, Jack must travel to the heart of the Amazonian rain forest; find the missing time-traveling wizard, Kidah; and join with him to defeat the Dark Lord from the future before he destroys the Earth. Like Jack's first adventure, Whirlwind is filled with thrilling, death-defying situations seldom found outside computer games. The fast-paced, gripping plot is an excellent vehicle for presenting a significant environmental message to an audience that might not hear it otherwise. The story stands on its own, but will be especially appreciated by those who experienced the cliff-hanger ending of Firestorm (Farrar, 2006). All readers will eagerly await the third book.-Ginny Gustin, Sonoma County Library System, Santa Rosa, CA

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Frenetic pacing enlivens environmental preaching in this eco-thriller follow-up to Firestorm (2006). Meet Jack Danielson, high-school hero. Likes sentence fragments. Sent back in time from an apocalyptic future and saved the world. Now he just wants to see P.J., his high-school sweetheart. Uh-oh! She's been kidnapped! The future's in peril again! It's up to Jack, telepathic pooch Gisco and "Ninjababe" Eko to save the rainforests from the fiendish depredations of a spidery super-villain! Except they don't really do anything. Everything comes down to some mystic-wizard-ex-machina, actually named "the Mysterious Kidah." We keep hearing how brave and smart P.J. is, but mostly she gets tied up and screams "Ja-a-ack! Help!" Oh, and trades catty comments with Eko over who's going to end up with Jack. But hey, look! Unspoiled nature-wise indigenous tribes! Evil drug smugglers! Hot-air balloons! Scary gross Amazonian critters! Ninety-two chapters. Ninety-two cliffhangers. Guys looking for nonstop action with a heavy dose of political correctness will eat this up. Anyone looking for careful writing, character development or a thoughtful exploration of important issues will throw it against the wall. (Science fiction. YA)

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780312384296
  • Publisher: Square Fish
  • Publication date: 3/17/2009
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 320
  • Sales rank: 322,902
  • Age range: 14 - 17 Years
  • Lexile: 770L (what's this?)
  • Series: Caretaker Trilogy Series , #2
  • Product dimensions: 5.40 (w) x 8.20 (h) x 2.90 (d)

Meet the Author

David Klass is the author of many young adult novels, including Dark Angel and You Don’t Know Me. He is also a Hollywood screenwriter, having written more than twenty-five action screenplays, including Kiss the Girls, starring Morgan Freeman and Ashley Judd, Walking Tall, starring The Rock, and Desperate Measures, starring Michael Keaton and Andy Garcia. Klass grew up in a family that loved literature and theater—his parents were both college professors and writers—but he was a reluctant reader, preferring sports to books. But he started loving the adventure stories his parents would bring home from the library—particularly Jack London, Robert Louis Stevenson and Alexandre Dumas. After his sister twice won a story contest in Seventeen magazine, Klass decided he would win it too, and when he was a senior in high school, he did, publishing his first story, “Ringtoss,” in the magazine. He studied at Yale University, where he won the Veech Award for Best Imaginative Writing. He taught English in Japan, and wrote his first novel, The Atami Dragons, about that experience. He now lives in New York with his wife and two small children.

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From Whirlwind

?Experts on vampire bats like to claim that they are the only animals that feed exclusively on blood,? the colonel tells me. ?They?re almost right. In the entire world, there is only one other such creature. Westerners dubbed it the vampire fish. But the natives here call it the candirú.?

The water beneath me swirls as if someone is twirling a straw through it. Suddenly the lights in the room start to dim. The bridge under my feet continues narrowing. When I started walking across, it was more than a foot wide. Now it can?t be more than six inches. I feel myself start to tremble, and fight against the panic.

?Where is Kidah?? the colonel demands. ?Tell me all that you know and I promise I will spare you. Deny me, and you will learn why the candirú is the most dreaded creature in this vast feeding ground known as the Amazon.?

I look back at him, and at P.J. standing beside him, and I try to keep the terror from my voice. ?If I knew, I would tell you. I have no reason to protect him. I came here to save P.J. All I know is that Kidah?s supposed to be here, somewhere, hiding. I?m sorry.?

?Yes, you will be,? the colonel promises.

Interviews & Essays

An Interview with David KlassQ: In Whirlwind, the second book of the Caretaker Trilogy, the Amazonian rainforest serves as the main setting for the latest environmental battles. The descriptions of the rain forest are vivid and feral: What process did you pursue to so evocatively render the ecosystem? A: I read everything I could find on the Amazon -- travel books and scientific accounts -- and I looked at thousands of pictures. I also talked to a number of scientists who have spent time in the Amazon, and asked them about specific situations that occur in my novel. For example, I asked pilots what it was like to fly over the rain forest, and I asked environmentalists what the forest looks and sounds like when it's burning. Q: Artificial Intelligence makes a riveting appearance in Whirlwind. What piqued your interest in this topic? For example, Jack Danielson, the book's hero, has an unusual cognitive connection with a vehicle possessing A.I. in the opening pages. The machine even "acts" heroically in the end. A: My father, an anthropologist, was very interested in the definition and limits of consciousness. I have read a great deal of sci-fi, and I tried to use my father's ideas as a jumping-off point in imagining what the relationship between humans and machines might be in the far future. I deeply regret that my dad is not around to critique Jack's relationship with the dinghy. Q: You expand upon your treatment of time travel from your work in Firestorm. Here, several theorists of time travel are mentioned, such as Hugh Everett and Igor Novikov. Are these actual historical figures? If so, what were the particular challenges and rewards in tackling this material?

A: Hugh Everett and Igor Novikov are indeed real figures -- brilliant scientists who changed the way we think about the cosmos. While researching this part of the novel I read books detailing cutting-edge theories of space and time, and bumped up against my own limitations to comprehend theoretical physics. It's particularly dangerous for a writer to write a trilogy involving time travel, because "cosmic laws" you set up in the opening book may paint you into a corner when it comes time to resolve things in book three.

Q: With former vice president Al Gore winning the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in raising awareness about global warming, and shows such as CNN's Planet in Peril with Anderson Cooper, environmental concerns seem to be reaching a tipping point. What is your opinion on this? A: Yes, I think at this late hour we're finally realizing as a species that we're all in this together, and we must act quickly. I don't think it's overstating things to say that there's a global battle going on to save the earth, and the fate of our species is hanging in the balance. I'm very grateful to Greenpeace for the help they've given me in researching this trilogy. One thing I've learned from them is that every contribution to this global battle is important. I hope that by writing the Caretaker Trilogy I've helped a little bit. Q: There is also a great deal of sympathy for indigenous peoples in Whirlwind. What do you hope readers will learn about understanding other cultures and environments? A: I had great fun creating the People of the Forest tribe. Jack initially thinks that they are primitive, because they eat grubs, walk around without clothes, and lack technology. As he lives with them, he slowly realizes that their lifestyle, values, and social structure make a great deal more sense than our own. Q: Some people might not know about your multifaceted writing career. In addition to the Caretaker Trilogy, you've written over a dozen coming-of-age stories for young adults and 30-plus movie scripts, including Kiss the Girls, starring Morgan Freeman and Ashley Judd; Desperate Measures, starring Michael Keaton and Andy Garcia; Walking Tall, starring The Rock; and Gothika, with Halle Berry. Did you find your Hollywood experience informed your writing of Whirlwind? A: I've written dozens of action screenplays for all the different Hollywood studios. In this trilogy I tried to use what I've learned from the movie business about generating pace and suspense. Also, screenwriters have to learn to think visually, and Whirlwind gave me an unparalleled chance to use that skill. Jack's trip to the Amazon was a wonderful canvas on which to sketch out a colorful adventure. From crash-landing in the Andes to swimming with pink dolphins, from trying to outrace a forest fire to riding a canoe down a massive waterfall, I had one great scenic opportunity after another. Q: The first book in the Caretaker Trilogy, Firestorm, was optioned by Warner Bros. Just for fun: If you were casting this film, who would be your dream cast? A: I'm not much good at casting, but I'd love for Woody Allen to play The Mysterious Kidah.

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    When Jack arrives home to try and explain his disappearance for the last six months to his girlfriend, he finds out that the Dark Army has beaten him there and has kidnapped her in an attempt to thwart his Earth-saving plans. The police are blaming him for the disappearance and for the death of her parents, who died fighting this evil army from the future in the first book, FIRESTORM. With the help of a psychic, wisecracking dog named Gisco, Jack sets off in a hot air balloon for the Amazon rainforest, where legend has it that a time-traveling wizard lives who can help him defeat the Dark Army. Will Jack find the wizard and his girlfriend? Will Jack defeat the Dark Army before they destroy Earth? WHIRLWIND is a fast-paced, action-filled book. With each chapter ending in a cliffhanger and the stakes high for the book's well-developed main character, David Klass has done a great job of crafting this tale. Readers who enjoy adventure, science fiction, fantasy, and action will all enjoy reading this second book in THE CARETAKER TRILOGY.

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    all his books i read where all good this should continue for the remaining books he writes

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