The 'Ping'

Imagine you could go anywhere in the world with just a press of a button. One second, you could be in your living room, and the next, on top of the Eiffel Tower!

Well, thirteen-year-old Charlie Sor doesn't have to imagine-because that's what his life is like! When his clumsy young neighbour accidentally invents a teleportation device called the Ping, egomaniac Lorcan Ulysses Natic soon sets out to take it. Charlie helps thwart a kidnapping and meets an old man named Ted Ious.

Now Ted's name ...