The Crash Crystal

The Crash Crystal: A LEGO® Mystery is a story to be read by (and to) 9 to 12 year old boys and girls. It’s mostly in the voice of Mack McCarthy (12), who – like the author’s own sons – is into YouTube, LEGO.com, Steam. But in this book, those modern-day technologies interact with Buddhist mysticism in an international kids-on-the-run romping story!

Short book summary: Using LEGOs that he assembles in eerily accurate crash-site scenes, Mack McCarthy (12) can predict why planes crash with dead-on accuracy, amazing his initially doubtful mother and father, a top Federal crash-site investigator. But Mack is sure his power is real, passed on to him through a crystal by his mystical grandfather, who dies with a mysterious grin on hit face, just as the book opens. Defying skeptics, Mack uses LEGOs to solve crash after crash, proving he’s got a very rare gift indeed…until Mack faces the ultimate test when he must solve the crash of a plane that he and his father and many others are on, before the crash happens!