Nightrise

Power of Five (Gatekeepers) Series

Author: Anthony Horowitz

Book 3 in the Power of Five (Gatekeepers) series

Pages: 416

Published: 2007

Age: 12+

Nevada, USA. Fourteen-year-old twins Jamie and Scott Tyler are performing a mind-reading act in a dingy theatre. But when a sinister multinational corporation, Nightrise, kidnaps Scott, Jamie is left alone - and wanted for murder. He becomes embroiled in a corrupt presidential campaign and breaks into the American prison system before being propelled ten thousand years into the past, where he encounters the other Gatekeepers and witnesses the creation of Raven's Gate - and the first fateful battle against the Old Ones.

About the Power of Five (Gatekeepers) Series

Books in series order

  1. 1.Raven's Gate(2005)
  2. 2.Evil Star(2006)
  3. 3.Nightrise(2007)
  4. 4.Necropolis(2008)
  5. 5.Oblivion(2012)

Reading age: 12+ years

This series should be read in order.

He always knew he was different.
First there were the dreams.
Then the deaths began.

Matt has always known he has unusual powers. Raised in foster care, he is sent to Yorkshire on a rehabilitation programme, only to find himself in the midst of sinister goings-on. Matt investigates and uncovers a terrible secret: eight guardians are protecting the world from the Old Ones, beings banished long ago by five children. But devil worshippers want to let the Old Ones back in...