Hodder African Readers are high-interest books designed to appeal to both boys and girls. They are highly motivating adventure and action stories which attract the reader's attention and hold it through the story. Together these titles form a strong, vibrant and attractive supplementary readers series for the African schools.

Time Bomb: When John agrees to carry a package for his friend Abel on a flight to Harare, he realises he is taking a risk, but even a close brush with the customs inspector does not prepare him for what is to come. Swept up in an intrigue that takes in Botswana and Mozambique as well as Zimbabwe, John finds himself at the mercy of an evil megalomaniac and his ruthless henchmen.

Other titles in the series include:

- The Fearless Four
- The Fearless Four: Hijack!
- The Fearless Four and the Graveyard Ghost
- The Fearless Four and the Smugglers
- Twin Trouble
- Dead Men's Bones
- Sauna and the Drug Pedlars
- Time Bomb
- The Power of Corruption
- God's Case: No Appeal
- Magic, Mystery and Mister Prince
- One Man, Two Votes

This book is part of a book series called Hodder African Readers .

This book is aimed at children in secondary school. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read. This reading book uses the phonics method. This approach concentrates on teaching children how to map between sounds and spellings, allowing them to decode written words into their constituent sounds. Phonics skill thus involves being able to split the written word 'cat' into the phonemes /k/, /a/, /t/, and to map from letter 'c' to phoneme /k/, from letter 'a' to phoneme /ae/ and from letter 't' to phoneme /t/. Decoding skill is useful when reading unfamiliar words which use regular spelling sequences.

There are 96 pages in this book. It is an anthology. This book was published 2006 by Hodder Education .