Kai Meyer The Wave Runners, Volume 1 » The Wave Runners « Coverillustration by Joachim Knappe 12+, 06/01/2003 384 pages, 14.0 x 21.5 cm ISBN 978-3-7855-4848-6 hardcover 14,90 € (D) Rights sold: British English (UK Ireland, British Commonwealth, Australia, New Zealand, Canada), American English, Japanese, Croatian, Russian, French, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Norwegian

A magic earthquake shakes the islands of the Caribbean. In the pirate harbours children are born with a special gift: they can walk on water. Years later, Jolly thinks she is the only wave runner left. Until she meets Munk. He also walks on the sea, and can work an ancient form of magic from shells. A grim fate awaits the two of them: in the middle of the Atlantic there is a massive maelstrom whose messengers bring ruin to the islands - and hunt the wave runners. Only Jolly and Munk can halt this whirlpool between the continents.

Kai Meyer published his first novel when he was 23 years old. Since then he has written about forty ...