Fledgling Jason Steed

Fledgling Jason Steed, otherwise known as Fledgling A Jason Steed Adventure, is the first novel in the Jason Steed series written by British author Mark A. Cooper. The book, about an 11-year-old martial arts expert and spy, is notable for being a world-wide "word of mouth" internet hit, despite being self-published. In March 2009, it was voted as the Top Young Adult Book for 2009 by Fictionreviewer.com. The book "narrowly beat" the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer to win the award.
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Fledgling A Jason Steed Adventure (ISBN-13: 9780741449344) was published in September 2008. The book has been compared to the Alex Rider, Young Bond and CHERUB series, which all feature child spies, as well as the Harry Potter books and young Jason Bourne. Raymond Victor Steed was a galley boy on a Merchant Navy ship when it was blown up and sunk after hitting a German mine off the African coast in 1943. Raymond, from Newport, was 14 years and 207 days old when he died - just five months after joining up. Raymond and his 20 crew mates died on 26 April 1943, after their ship, Empire Morn, exploded after hitting a U-Boat mine near Casablanca, Morocco. Raymond has been officially recognised by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission as the youngest recorded fatality of the British service war dead.
Fledgling A Jason Steed Adventure has received several favourable reviews from notable publications. "You will laugh, cry and get hooked on this exciting coming of age adventure," wrote the Navy News. Soldier, a British Forces monthly magazine, called it "A page-turning fast read," the Yorkshire Evening Post said "Jason Steed is James Bond as a boy" and Fictionreviewer.com wrote: "A coming of age heart wrenching story packed with laughs and fast paced action. Most readers who love action and spy fiction will devour this dynamic book in a single sitting or two, otherwise they’ll be in extreme agony waiting to see what happens next." The possibility of Fledgling being made into a film is also discussed on the same website, and the idea was reported in the Cornish and Devon Post newspaper in November 2008 too. However, no confirmation of this proposal is yet available. where he attended Battersea Grammar School. He moved to Launceston, Cornwall, as a teenager, where he attended Torpoint High School. He went on to study at Plymouth University in Devon.

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