In this riveting thriller, 14-year-old Steven “Steel” Trapp sets off with his mom and their dog, Cairo, on a 2-day Amtrak journey to compete in the National Science Competition in Washington, DC. Steel is both blessed and cursed with a remarkable photographic memory–just one look and whatever he sees is imprinted for keeps. Trying to(…)
Steel Trapp
Steven ‘Steel’ Trapp is a likeable young teenage boy, on a cross-US train ride to enter a national science competition. He claims not to be completely smart, but does have total and instant recall. So when he sees a woman leave his train without the briefcase she entered it with, he leaps to help. She in turn refuses to have anything to do with the briefcase, which troubles Steel somewhat. Little did he know the true extent to which that trouble can extend.