Short-listed for the 2006 Red Maple Award Tom Blake is a likeable but shy high school student, who fantasizes about adventure, romance, and discovering "portholes" to the past. Little does he know that all are about to come his way. Tom discovers that a local computer company is conditioning his fellow students for what he suspects is some evil purpose. He soon finds himself up against a corrupt organization with an agenda of genetic experimentation. Mercury Man evokes all the excitement of the best scifi, fantasy, and hero myths while never losing touch with ordinary urban contemporary reality.

 

There are 280 pages in this book. This book was published 2017 by ReadHowYouWant. com Ltd .

Tom Henighan has published twenty books, six of which are novels for young adults, including Mercury Man , shortlisted for the Red Maple Award; Viking Quest and Viking Terror , two historical novels set in medieval Canada; and, more recently, Demon in My View and Doom Lake Holiday . He taught adult fiction for ten years at Carleton University and has appeared at various children's literature festivals, including those at Harbourfront and Eden Mills, as well as the 2011 MASC workshops in children's writing in Ottawa, where he lives.