Ghost in the Trenches

Thrust into the terrifying mud and wire of No Man's Land in 1916, 15-year-old Robert must use his modern hunting and stealth skills to navigate the lethal space between the German and Allied trenches. Moving like a ghost through the fog of the Great War, he is initially hunted as a "e;strange intruder"e; until he stumbles upon a stranded, broken-down British Mark I tank and a squad of desperate soldiers. Using his "e;mechanic's brain,"e; Robert identifies a mechanical flaw—a simple fuel-line vapor lock or an ignition timing issue—that has stumped the early 20th-century engineers.Fixing the massive machine becomes his "e;bargaining chip"e; for survival, turning a potential prisoner into a vital asset for the small, isolated squad. As Robert keeps their mechanical warhorses running under fire, he has to out-engineer the brutal reality of industrial warfare while tracking the shimmering atmospheric "e;glitch"e; hidden behind enemy lines. After a final, high-speed dash across the battlefield in a repaired biplane, he plunges through the anomaly and wakes up safely in his own bed in 2020.